cadi

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English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɑːdi/
  • Rhymes: -ɑːdi
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Noun[edit]

cadi (plural cadis)

  1. Alternative form of qadi
    • 1819, Henry Tudor Farmer, Imagination; the Maniac's Dream: And Other Poems, page 157:
      [] look at these Christians closely, and you will abhor them. They are the worshippers of gold, not the followers of Alla. The poorest Mussulman has more hospitality than their Cadi; more charity than their Imans; more honesty than their Viziers.

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Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Arabic قَاضٍ (qāḍin).

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Noun[edit]

cadi m (plural cadis)

  1. qadi (civil judge in certain Islamic countries)
  2. (by extension) judge
    Synonym: juge

Descendants[edit]

  • ? German: Kadi

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Italian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈka.di/
  • Rhymes: -adi
  • Hyphenation: cà‧di

Verb[edit]

cadi

  1. inflection of cadere:
    1. second-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

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Latin[edit]

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Noun[edit]

cadī

  1. inflection of cadus:
    1. nominative/vocative plural
    2. genitive singular

References[edit]

  • cadi in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • cadi”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • cadi”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

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Noun[edit]

cadi m (plural cadis)

  1. (Islam) qadi (Sharia judge)