قضا

From Arabic قَضَاء‎ (qaḍāʔ, “judgement; jurisdiction”).

قضا • (kaza)

1. (law) judgment, the decision or sentence of a judge

   Synonym: یارغو‎ (yargı)

2. judgeship, judicature, the office or status of a judge
3. jurisdiction, the territory in which a judge exercises his functions
4. (historical) kaza, a subdistrict, or third-level administrative division of the Ottoman Empire
5. (theology) divine will or decree, thus providence, destiny

   Synonym: قدر‎ (kader)

6. (by extension) accident, mishap, mischance, an unexpected and negative event

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

  Cyrillic script: каза

  Latin script: kaza

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “kaza1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2504
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “قضا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 963
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Judicium”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 883
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “قضا”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, columns 3713-3714
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “kaza”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “قضا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1460

From Arabic قضاء‎ (qaḍāʔ).

قضا (qazā)

1. judgement
2. jurisdiction