cadi

See also: Cadi, cadí, cadì, cadı, cădi, čadí, and Çadi

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɑːdi/
  • Rhymes: -ɑːdi

Noun

cadi (plural cadis)

  1. Alternative form of qadi
    • 1819, Henry Tudor Farmer, Imagination; the Maniac's Dream: And Other Poems (page 157)
      [] look at these Christians closely, and you will abhor them. They are the worshippers of gold, not the followers of Alla. The poorest Mussulman has more hospitality than their Cadi; more charity than their Imans; more honesty than their Viziers.

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French

Alternative forms

Etymology

Arabic قَاضٍ (qāḍin)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ka.di/
  • (file)

Noun

cadi m (plural cadis)

  1. qadi (civil judge in certain Islamic countries)
  2. (by extension) judge
    Synonym: juge

Descendants

  • ? German: Kadi

Further reading


Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈka.di/
  • Rhymes: -adi
  • Hyphenation: cà‧di

Verb

cadi

  1. inflection of cadere:
    1. second-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

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Latin

Pronunciation

Noun

cadī

  1. inflection of cadus:
    1. nominative/vocative plural
    2. genitive singular

References

  • cadi in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • cadi”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • cadi”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Portuguese

Noun

cadi m (plural cadis)

  1. (Islam) qadi (Sharia judge)
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