# parlement
## Afrikaans
### Etymology

From Dutch parlement, from Middle Dutch parlement, from Old French parlement.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

parlement (plural parlemente)
* parliament

## Dutch
### Etymology

From Middle Dutch parlement, from Old French parlement.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˌpɑr.ləˈmɛnt/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: par‧le‧ment
* Rhymes: -ɛnt

### Noun

parlement n (plural parlementen, diminutive parlementje n)
* parliament
* (obsolete) conversation, talking, discussion, talk
* (obsolete) meeting, assembly

#### Derived terms

* Benelux-parlement on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{nl}$, Beneluxparlement on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{nl}$
* Europees Parlement on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{nl}$
* parlementair
* parlementariër
* parlementsgebouw
* parlementsgezinde
* parlementshuis
* parlementsleger
* parlementslid
* parlementsverkiezing
* parlementsvoorzitter

#### Descendants

* Afrikaans: parlement
* → Indonesian: parlemen
* → West Frisian: parlemint

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Old French parlement, from Middle English parlement.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /paʁ.lə.mɑ̃/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

parlement m (plural parlements)
* parliament

#### Derived terms

* Parlement européen
* parlementaire
* parlementer

#### Descendants

* → Persian: پارلمان (pârlemân)

### Further reading

* “parlement”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* paralament, parlament, parlamente, parlemente, parliament, parliment, parllement, parlyment

### Etymology

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman and continental Old French parlement; equivalent to parlen +‎ -ment. Compare Medieval Latin parliamentum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˌparli(a)ˈmɛnt/, /ˈparli(a)mɛnt/

### Noun

parlement
* A discussion or conversation; talking.
* A consultation, council, or conference:
** A parliament (formal council of importance)
** A parliament (legislative assembly).
* (specifically) The parliament of England.
* (rare) An order or directive.

#### Descendants

* English: parliament, Parliament
* Scots: parliament
* → Old French: parlement (“legislative assembly, legislative body”) (semantic loan)

### References

* ↑ “parlement(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
* ↑ “parlement”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Middle French
### Noun

parlement m (plural parlemens)
* parliament
* discussion
** c. 1369, Jean Froissart, Chroniques:Si eurent entre euls avant disner parlement sur l'estat de leurs besoignesThey had, between them, discussion before dinner about the state of their work
** 1488, Jean Dupré, Lancelot du Lac, page 53:mal ont fait les parlemens de la table rondethey conducted the discussions of the round table badly

#### Descendants

* French: parlement

## Old French
### Etymology

* parler (“to speak”) +‎ -ment.
* (legislative body): Semantic loan from Middle English parlement (“parliament”) in the 14th century following the example of the Parliament of England; itself a borrowing from Old French.

### Noun

parlement oblique singular, m (oblique plural parlemenz or parlementz, nominative singular parlemenz or parlementz, nominative plural parlement)
* discussion; discourse; debate; argument
* deliberative assembly
* parliament (curia regis in judicial session; sovereign court of justice) (13th century)
* parliament (legislative assembly or body) (14th century)

#### Descendants

(2):
* Middle French: parlement
** French: parlement
* → Arabic: بَرْلَمَان (barlamān)
* → German: Parlament
* Medieval Latin: parlamentum
* → Middle English: parlement, paralament, parlament, parlamente, parlemente, parliament, parliment, parllement, parlyment
** English: parliament, Parliament
** Scots: parliament
** → Old French: parlement (“legislative assembly, legislative body”) (semantic loan)
* → Middle Dutch: parlement
** Dutch: parlement
*** Afrikaans: parlement
*** → Indonesian: parlemen
*** → West Frisian: parlemint
(3 & 4):
* French: parlement

### References

* Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX$^e$ au XV$^e$ siècle (1881) (parlement)
* 1 2 3 4 “parlement”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
* ↑ “parlement”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.