kadi

See also: Kadi, kadí, kaᶁi, and kádi

English

Noun

kadi (plural kadis)

  1. Alternative spelling of qadi
    • 1907, Various, The Olive Fairy Book:
      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:
      "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:
      Each has an imaum, but the kadi is their head, of which dignity he seems not a little proud.

Anagrams

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

From Arabic قَاضِي (qāḍī).

Noun

kadi

  1. (Islam, law) a civil judge

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *kъdě, *kъde.

Adverb

kadi (Cyrillic spelling кади)

  1. (Chakavian) where

Pronoun

kadi (Cyrillic spelling кади)

  1. (Chakavian) where

Synonyms

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from English card.

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Noun

kadi (n class, plural kadi)

  1. card

Derived terms

Tboli

Noun

kadi

  1. (anatomy) dimple
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