mahallahとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• mahalla, mahallya, mehalla, mohalla, muhalla

語源

Borrowed from Hindustani مَحَلَّہ (mahalla) / मुहल्ला (muhallā), from Classical Persian مَحَلَّه (mahalla), from Arabic مَحَلَّة (maḥalla).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /məˈhalə/

名詞

mahallah (plural mahallahs)

1. (chiefly South Asia) A subdivision or neighborhood.
   • 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 483:

     ‘His Majesty signed the search warrant. We are combing the third muhalla now.’

   • 2023, Radhika Iyengar, Fire on the Ganges, Fourth Estate, page 63:

     When she was young, Dolly was considered the most beautiful girl in the mohalla.

2. An armed formation of Arabs.
   • 1986, Giorgio Rochat, Omar al-Mukhtar: The Italian Reconquest of Libya, Darf Publishers, page 43:

     Three large mehalle, with an overall strength of over 1200 infantry and 400 cavalry, occupied the heart of the Gebel.