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qadi en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈkɑːdi/
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From Arabic قَاضٍ (qāḍin, “judge”). Doublet of alcalde, casis, cauzee, and kadhi.

Meanings

1. A judge who is trained in and practices Islamic law.
   • To this the Jew agreed, and the two went together to the great hall, in which the kadi was administering justice. 1907, Various, The Olive Fairy Book:
   • The Qazi, his spiritual adviser, had recommended that the Russian be taken out into the desert and buried alive [...]. 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 74:
   • While sharia law for divorce in many Muslim countries has been modified by governments, in Israel reform was initiated by qadis. 2011 July 22, Jill Hamilton, The Guardian:
   • legal treatises dealing with the subject usually spoke of the appointment to office of a qadi [...]. 1985, Yasmin Hussain, Sharon Siddique, Ahmad Ibrahim, Readings on Islam in Southeast Asia:

Forms

Hypernyms

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Translations (37)

hu kádi (judge in Islam) · sv kadi (judge in Islam) · ta காசியார் (judge in Islam) · tt казый (judge in Islam) · it cadì (judge in Islam) · nl kadi (judge in Islam) · ja カーディー (judge in Islam) · fr cadi (judge in Islam) · hi क़ाज़ी (judge in Islam) · ta காஜி (judge in Islam) · nog кады (judge in Islam) · gu કાજી (judge in Islam) · pl kadi (judge in Islam) · id kadi (judge in Islam) · da kadi (judge in Islam) · tr kadı (judge in Islam) · tk kazy (judge in Islam) · az qazı (judge in Islam) · pt cadi (judge in Islam) · fi qadi (judge in Islam) · ug قازى (judge in Islam) · ks قٲضؠ (judge in Islam) · lez къази (judge in Islam) · es cadí (judge in Islam) · crh qadı (judge in Islam) · ru ка́ди (judge in Islam) · uz qozi (judge in Islam) · ca cadi (judge in Islam) · ky казы (judge in Islam) · mk ка́дија (judge in Islam) · kk қади (judge in Islam) · sw kadhi (judge in Islam) · ba ҡазый (judge in Islam) · de Kadi (judge in Islam) · zdj kadhwi (judge in Islam) · ms kadi (judge in Islam) · zdj kadhi (judge in Islam)