مجال

See also: محال

Arabic

Etymology

Root
ج و ل (j-w-l)

Noun of place from the verb جَالَ (jāla, “to go round, to roam”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.d͡ʒaːl/

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Noun

مَجَال • (majāl) m (plural مَجَالَات (majālāt))

1. field (area of specialty)
2. extent
3. space
   • 1982, Yusuf Idris, العسكري الأسود [The Black Military]:

     وَكَانَ، لِأَسْبَابٍ لَيْسَ هُنَا مَجَالُ تَقَصِّيهَا، قَدْ اِخْتَارَ فُتْرَةً بَعْدَ ٱلظُّهْرِ لِيَكُونَ ٱلنَّوْبَتْجِيَّ فِيهَا

     wakāna, liʔasbābin laysa hunā majālu taqaṣṣīhā, qad iḵtāra futratan baʕda ẓ-ẓuhri liyakūna n-nawbatjiyya fīhā

     And for reasons there's no space to investigate, he chose to have the shift in the afternoon.

4. place of combat, battlefield
5. skirmish
6. place of exercise for horses
7. circle
8. sphere of action, elbow room
9. power, capacity, possibility, opportunity
10. road, passage
11. career

Declension

Declension of noun مَجَال (majāl)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	مَجَال majāl	الْمَجَال al-majāl	مَجَال majāl
Nominative	مَجَالٌ majālun	الْمَجَالُ al-majālu	مَجَالُ majālu
Accusative	مَجَالًا majālan	الْمَجَالَ al-majāla	مَجَالَ majāla
Genitive	مَجَالٍ majālin	الْمَجَالِ al-majāli	مَجَالِ majāli
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	مَجَالَيْن majālayn	الْمَجَالَيْن al-majālayn	مَجَالَيْ majālay
Nominative	مَجَالَانِ majālāni	الْمَجَالَانِ al-majālāni	مَجَالَا majālā
Accusative	مَجَالَيْنِ majālayni	الْمَجَالَيْنِ al-majālayni	مَجَالَيْ majālay
Genitive	مَجَالَيْنِ majālayni	الْمَجَالَيْنِ al-majālayni	مَجَالَيْ majālay
Plural	sound feminine plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	مَجَالَات majālāt	الْمَجَالَات al-majālāt	مَجَالَات majālāt
Nominative	مَجَالَاتٌ majālātun	الْمَجَالَاتُ al-majālātu	مَجَالَاتُ majālātu
Accusative	مَجَالَاتٍ majālātin	الْمَجَالَاتِ al-majālāti	مَجَالَاتِ majālāti
Genitive	مَجَالَاتٍ majālātin	الْمَجَالَاتِ al-majālāti	مَجَالَاتِ majālāti

Descendants

• → Amharic: መቻል (mäčal)
• → Azerbaijani: məcal
• → Ottoman Turkish: مجال (mecāl)

  > Turkish: mecal (inherited)

• → Tatar: мәҗал (mäcal)
• → Uyghur: ماجال (majal)
• → Uzbek: majol

References

• Lane, Edward William (1863) “جول”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[1], London: Williams & Norgate
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “مجال”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[2], London: W.H. Allen
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “جول”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN