cadi

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑːdi/
• Rhymes: -ɑːdi

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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.

• -adic, ACID, Daic, acid, adic, caid

• Cadi, kadi, qadi

Borrowed from Arabic قَاضٍ (qāḍin).

• IPA^(key): /ka.di/

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cadi m (plural cadis)

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

   Synonym: juge

• →? German: Kadi

• “cadi”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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

cadi

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

• -cida, Ciad, dica

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.diː/, [ˈkäd̪iː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.di/, [ˈkäːd̪i]

cadī

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

• 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

cadi m (plural cadis)

1. (Islam) qadi (Sharia judge)