قاضٍ

The word in other languages

Each form in its own language's script, with its sources. Anything marked "single source" has only one source we could find, so it is shown on this page only, not on the card.

• Turkish kadı on the card

  a sharia judge

  Sources: Nişanyan, Turkish etymological dictionary (via etimolojiturkce.com); Wiktionary (English edition)

• Persian قاضی qâzi

  a judge

  Sources: Steingass, A Comprehensive Persian-English Dictionary (1892), University of Chicago edition; Wiktionary (English edition)

• Urdu قاضی qāzī on the card

  a sharia judge

  Sources: Platts, A Dictionary of Urdu, Classical Hindi and English (1884), University of Chicago edition; Wiktionary (English edition)

• Urdu جونپور کا قاضی jaunpur kā qāzī single source

  "the qazi of Jaunpur": said of a fool

  Sources: Platts, A Dictionary of Urdu, Classical Hindi and English (1884), University of Chicago edition

• Indonesian kadi

  a judge of Islamic religious cases

  Sources: KBBI, the official Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language; Wiktionary (English edition)

• Malay kadi in Jawi script: قاضي single source

  a sharia judge

  Sources: Kamus Dewan, 4th edition, on the PRPM portal of Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, Malaysia

• Swahili kadhi on the card

  a judge

  Sources: Madan, Swahili-English Dictionary (Oxford, 1903); Rechenbach, Swahili-English Dictionary (Catholic University of America, 1967); Wiktionary (English edition)

• Hausa alƙali on the card

  a judge

  Sources: Bargery, A Hausa-English Dictionary (1934), online edition; Robinson, Dictionary of the Hausa Language (Cambridge, 1913); Wiktionary (English edition)

• Hausa alƙali single source

  also the pointer of a balance, as if it judged between the pans

  Sources: Bargery, A Hausa-English Dictionary (1934), online edition

• Bosnian kadija

  a sharia judge, borrowed through Turkish

  Sources: Abdulah Škaljić, Turcizmi u srpskohrvatskom jeziku (Sarajevo, 1966); Wiktionary (English edition)