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Mahala is a name used in many languages and countries referring to Neighbourhood or Locality. Mahala is a Balkan word for "neighbourhood" or "quarter", a section of a rural or urban settlement, dating to the times of the Ottoman Empire. It was brought to the area through Ottoman Turkish ''mahalle'', but it originates in Arabic ''mähallä'', from the root meaning "to settle", "to occupy". It is rendered as follows in the languages of the region: (ブルガリア語:махала), ''mahala''; Bosnian and (セルビア語:махала/''mahala'') or ма'ала/''ma'ala''; (ルーマニア語、モルドバ語():mahala); (アルバニア語:mëhallë); (ギリシア語:μαχαλάς), ''machalas''; (マケドニア語:маало), ''maalo'' or маала, ''maala''; ; . A mahala was a relatively independent quarter of a larger village or a town, with its own school, religious building or buildings, mayor's representative, etc. Mahalas are often named after the first settler or, when ethnically separate, according to the dominant ethnicity. In Bulgaria, mahalas were administratively considered a separate type of settlement on some occasions; today, settlements are only divided into towns or villages, and the official division of towns is into quarters. In rural mountainous areas, villages were often scattered and consisted of relatively separate mahalas with badly developed infrastructure. In Romanian, the word ''mahala'' has come to have the strictly negative or pejorative connotations of a slum or ghetto〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Free Online English<>Romanian Dictionary — Dictionar Englez Roman )〕 that are not present or at least not as strongly implied in other languages. In the Bengali language, ''mahalla'' (pronounced ''mo-hol-la'') also means an urban neighbourhood. In Iran, ''mahalla'' is widely used in the same ways as mentioned above for urban neighborhoods. In South Africa, ''mahala'' is a slang term meaning "free of charge". ==See also== *Mellah *Mohala 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mahala」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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