Arabic in the Languages of Muslim Peoples
مَحْكَمَة
a court of law
maḥkama
- Field
- Law and administration
The word in other languages
Each form in its own language's script, with its sources. Anything marked "single source" has only one source we could find, so it is shown on this page only, not on the card.
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Turkish mahkeme on the card
a court of law
Sources: Nişanyan, Turkish etymological dictionary (via etimolojiturkce.com); Wiktionary (English edition)
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Persian محکمه mahkame on the card
a court; in Iran today the usual word is dādgāh
Sources: Steingass, A Comprehensive Persian-English Dictionary (1892), University of Chicago edition; Wiktionary (English edition)
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Urdu محکمہ mahkama on the card
a court of law; a government department
Sources: Platts, A Dictionary of Urdu, Classical Hindi and English (1884), University of Chicago edition; Wiktionary (English edition)
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Indonesian mahkamah on the card
a court: Mahkamah Agung, the Supreme Court
Sources: KBBI, the official Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language; Wiktionary (English edition)
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Malay mahkamah in Jawi script: محکمه on the card
a court of law
Sources: Kamus Dewan, 4th edition, on the PRPM portal of Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, Malaysia; Wiktionary (English edition)
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Swahili mahakama
a court; the judiciary; in Rechenbach, the short form mahakma
Sources: Wiktionary (English edition); Rechenbach, Swahili-English Dictionary (Catholic University of America, 1967)
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Bosnian mehćema single source
a court and its building
Sources: Abdulah Škaljić, Turcizmi u srpskohrvatskom jeziku (Sarajevo, 1966)
Swahili breaks up the cluster of h and k with a vowel: mahakama.
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Sources
- Nişanyan, Turkish etymological dictionary (via etimolojiturkce.com): mahkeme
- Wiktionary (English edition): mahkeme (Turkish)
- Steingass, A Comprehensive Persian-English Dictionary (1892), University of Chicago edition: محکمة
- Wiktionary (English edition): محکمه (Persian)
- Platts, A Dictionary of Urdu, Classical Hindi and English (1884), University of Chicago edition: محکمه
- Wiktionary (English edition): محکمہ (Urdu)
- KBBI, the official Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language: mahkamah
- Wiktionary (English edition): mahkamah (Indonesian)
- Kamus Dewan, 4th edition, on the PRPM portal of Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, Malaysia: mahkamah
- Wiktionary (English edition): mahkamah (Malay)
- Wiktionary (English edition): mahakama (Swahili)
- Rechenbach, Swahili-English Dictionary (Catholic University of America, 1967): mahakma
- Abdulah Škaljić, Turcizmi u srpskohrvatskom jeziku (Sarajevo, 1966): mehćema
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