different between cadi vs qadi

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k??di/

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.

Anagrams

• -adic, ACID, Daic, acid, adic, caid

Italian

Verb

cadi

1. second-person singular present of cadere
2. second-person singular imperative of cadere

Anagrams

• Ciad, dica

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ka.di?/, [?käd?i?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ka.di/, [?k??d?i]

Noun

cad?

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, 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)

English

Alternative forms

• cadi, kadi, Kazi, qazi

Etymology

From Arabic ?????? (q??in, “judge”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k??di/

Noun

qadi (plural qadis)

1. (Islam, law) A civil judge in certain Islamic countries. [from 16th c.]
   • 1985, Yasmin Hussain, Sharon Siddique, Ahmad Ibrahim, Readings on Islam in Southeast Asia:

     legal treatises dealing with the subject usually spoke of the appointment to office of a qadi [...].

   • 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society 2010, p. 74:

     The Qazi, his spiritual adviser, had recommended that the Russian be taken out into the desert and buried alive [...].

   • 2011, Jill Hamilton, The Guardian, 22 Jul 2011:

     While sharia law for divorce in many Muslim countries has been modified by governments, in Israel reform was initiated by qadis.

Translations

Anagrams

• qaid