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means A formal assembly, council, or gathering — in ancient India a political or legislative body, today often used for a meeting hall, cultural gathering, or legislative chamber (as in Lok Sabha, the house of the people).

from From Sanskrit 'sabhā', meaning assembly hall or gathering, a word old enough to appear in Vedic literature describing tribal councils and royal courts. It traveled into Hindi and many other South Asian languages largely intact, later getting formalized into modern political vocabulary — hence 'Lok Sabha' (house of the people) and 'Rajya Sabha' (council of states) in India's parliament. The root sense of 'a place where people convene to speak' has barely budged in millennia.