kadi
English
Noun
kadi (plural kadis)
- Alternative spelling of qadi
- 1907, Various, The Olive Fairy Book[1]:
- To this the Jew agreed, and the two went together to the great hall, in which the kadi was administering justice.
- 1898, Rounsevelle Wildman, Tales of the Malayan Coast[2]:
- "You shall go to Mecca when you grow up, and become a Hadji, and when you come back the high kadi shall take you in the mosque and make a kateeb of you," said I. "Now put your forehead to the ground and thank the good Allah that the kuching had eaten dog before he got you."
- 1836, Robert Huish, Lander's Travels[3]:
- Each has an imaum, but the kadi is their head, of which dignity he seems not a little proud.
Anagrams
Crimean Tatar
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Arabic (indefinite) قَاضٍ (qāḍin), (definite) الْقَاضِي (al-qāḍī)
Noun
kadi
- Moslem judge
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *kъdě, *kъde.
Adverb
kadi (Cyrillic spelling кади)
Pronoun
kadi (Cyrillic spelling кади)
Synonyms
Swahili
Etymology
Noun
kadi (n class, plural kadi)
Tboli
Noun
kadi
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