قضاء

Arabic

Root
ق ض ي (q-ḍ-y)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /qɑˈd̪ˤɑːʔ/

Noun

قَضَاء • (qaḍāʔ) m (plural أَقْضِيَة (ʔaqḍiya))

1. verbal noun of قَضَى (qaḍā) (form I)
2. judgement

   Synonyms: حُكْم (ḥukm), حُكُومَة (ḥukūma)

3. jurisdiction
4. an administrative unit of territory, used in the Asiatic part of the Arab world
5. (theology) divine will or decree; providence; destiny

Declension

Declension of noun قَضَاء (qaḍāʔ)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	قَضَاء qaḍāʔ	الْقَضَاء al-qaḍāʔ	قَضَاء qaḍāʔ
Nominative	قَضَاءٌ qaḍāʔun	الْقَضَاءُ al-qaḍāʔu	قَضَاءُ qaḍāʔu
Accusative	قَضَاءً qaḍāʔan	الْقَضَاءَ al-qaḍāʔa	قَضَاءَ qaḍāʔa
Genitive	قَضَاءٍ qaḍāʔin	الْقَضَاءِ al-qaḍāʔi	قَضَاءِ qaḍāʔi
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	قَضَاءَيْن qaḍāʔayn	الْقَضَاءَيْن al-qaḍāʔayn	قَضَاءَيْ qaḍāʔay
Nominative	قَضَاءَانِ qaḍāʔāni	الْقَضَاءَانِ al-qaḍāʔāni	قَضَاءَا qaḍāʔā
Accusative	قَضَاءَيْنِ qaḍāʔayni	الْقَضَاءَيْنِ al-qaḍāʔayni	قَضَاءَيْ qaḍāʔay
Genitive	قَضَاءَيْنِ qaḍāʔayni	الْقَضَاءَيْنِ al-qaḍāʔayni	قَضَاءَيْ qaḍāʔay
Plural	broken plural triptote in ـَة (-a)
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	أَقْضِيَة ʔaqḍiya	الْأَقْضِيَة al-ʔaqḍiya	أَقْضِيَة ʔaqḍiyat
Nominative	أَقْضِيَةٌ ʔaqḍiyatun	الْأَقْضِيَةُ al-ʔaqḍiyatu	أَقْضِيَةُ ʔaqḍiyatu
Accusative	أَقْضِيَةً ʔaqḍiyatan	الْأَقْضِيَةَ al-ʔaqḍiyata	أَقْضِيَةَ ʔaqḍiyata
Genitive	أَقْضِيَةٍ ʔaqḍiyatin	الْأَقْضِيَةِ al-ʔaqḍiyati	أَقْضِيَةِ ʔaqḍiyati

Derived terms

• قَضَاءٌ وَقَدَرٌ (qaḍāʔun wa-qadarun, coordinated pair)

Descendants

• Ottoman Turkish: قضا (kaza)
  • Turkish: kaza
  • → Albanian: kaza
  • → Armenian: խազա (xaza), կա̈զա̈ (käzä)
  • → Bulgarian: кааза̀ (kaazà)
  • → English: kaza
  • → French: casa
  • → Greek: καζάς (kazás)
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: каза

    Latin script: kaza

• → Persian: قضاء
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਕਜ਼ਾ (kazā)

  Shahmukhi script: قضا (qaẓā)

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic قَضَاءً (qaḍāʔan), adverbial accusative of قَضَاء (qaḍāʔ).

Adverb

قضاءً • (kazaen)

1. by chance; accidentally

Descendants

• Turkish: kazaen

Further reading

• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “kazaen”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قضاء”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 963b