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Etymology
The origin is.

Traditionally considered an inheritance from and cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, but the vocalism is irregular. A sense development “session, sitting, meeting of an assembly; assembly” → “place and time of such an assembly” → “time in general” is assumed; compare 🇨🇬.

But more likely a borrowing,, which has also reached 🇨🇬, a relation already made by. The borrowing would have to be very old due to the →  sound shift, as in.

Bad Iranian etymologies have also been proposed.

Noun

 * 1) assembly, council; assembly of judges, tribunal; session of an assembly
 * 2) assembly hall, court hall
 * 3) tribunal, seat
 * 4) trial before a court
 * 5) the space in front of the sanctuary in temples
 * 6) time
 * 1) the space in front of the sanctuary in temples
 * 2) time