جماهيرية

Arabic

Etymology

The adjective is the usual feminine form of جماهيري, the nisba adjective of جماهير.

The noun is a neologism coined by Muammar Gaddafi in 1977 based on جُمْهُورِيَّة (jumhūriyya, republic), by changing the first element, جُمْهُور (jumhūr, public), to its plural form, جَمَاهِير (jamāhīr, the masses)

Adjective

جَمَاهِيرِيَّة (jamāhīriyya) f

  1. feminine singular of جَمَاهِيرِيّ (jamāhīriyy, pertaining to the masses, mass-)

Noun

جَمَاهِيرِيَّة (jamāhīriyya) f

  1. "state of the masses", People's Republic, Jamahiriya

Declension

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