قاضی

See also: قاضي, فاضي, and قاضى

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic قَاضِي (qāḍī).

Noun

قاضی • (kazı, vulg. kadı) (plural قاضیلر (kazılar, vulg. kadılar) or قُضات (kuzât))

1. judge, kazi, kadi

Derived terms

• قاضیلق (kazılık, kadılık)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: kadı
• → English: kazi, kazee, kadi
• → Macedonian: кадија (kadija)
• → Romanian: cadiu

References

• Mallouf, Nassif (1867) “قاضی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: Maisonneuve, page 948
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قاضی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1417

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic قَاضِي (qāḍī).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [qɑː.ziː]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [qɑː.ziː]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [qɑː.ziː]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [qɑː.ziː]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [qɔː.zi]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [qɒː.ziː]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [qɔ.zi]

Readings
Classical reading?	qāzī
Dari reading?	qāzī
Iranian reading?	ğâzi
Tajik reading?	qozi

Noun

Dari	قاضی
Iranian Persian
Tajik	қозӣ

قاضی • (qâzi) (plural قاضی‌ها (qâzi-hâ) or قضات (qozât))

1. judge

Descendants

• Dari: قَاضِی (qāzī)
• Iranian Persian: قاضی (ğâzi)
• Tajik: қозӣ (qozi)
• → Bengali: কাজী (kaji)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: क़ाज़ी (qāzī)

  Urdu: قاضِی (qāzī)

• → Punjabi:

  Shahmukhi script: قاضِی (qāẓī)

• → Sindhi: قاضي

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian قَاضِی (qāzī), from Arabic قَاضِي (qāḍī).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /qɑː.ziː/

Noun

قاضِی • (qāzī) m (formal plural قُضات (quzāt), Hindi spelling क़ाज़ी)

1. (Islam, law) qazi
2. (less common) judge

   Synonym: جَج (jaj)

Declension

Declension of قاضی
	singular	plural
direct	قاضی (qāzī)	قاضی (qāzī)
oblique	قاضی (qāzī)	قاضیوں (qāzīõ)
vocative	قاضی (qāzī)	قاضیو (qāzīo)