cadilesker
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ottoman Turkish, from Arabic قَاضِي العَسْكَر (qāḍī l-ʕaskar, “military judge”): قَاضٍ (qāḍin, “judge”) + عَسْكَر (ʕaskar, “troops”), because his jurisdiction originally extended to military cases.
Noun[edit]
cadilesker (plural cadileskers)
- (historical) A chief judge in the Ottoman Empire.
References[edit]
- “cadilesker”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.