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قضاء

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Pronunciation

Noun

قَضَاء (qaḍāʔ) m (plural أَقْضِيَة (ʔaqḍiya))

  1. verbal noun of قَضَى (qaḍā) (form I)
  2. judgement
    Synonyms: حُكْم (ḥukm), حُكُومَة (ḥukūma)
  3. jurisdiction
  4. an administrative unit of territory, used in the Asiatic part of the Arab world
  5. (theology) divine will or decree; providence; destiny

Declension

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Derived terms

  • قَضَاءٌ وَقَدَرٌ (qaḍāʔun wa-qadarun, coordinated pair)

Descendants

  • Ottoman Turkish: قضا (kaza)
    • Turkish: kaza
    • Albanian: kaza
    • Armenian: խազա (xaza), կա̈զա̈ (käzä)
    • Bulgarian: кааза̀ (kaazà)
    • English: kaza
    • French: casa
    • Greek: καζάς (kazás)
    • Macedonian: каза (kaza)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: каза
      Latin script: kaza
  • Persian: قضاء
  • Punjabi:
    Gurmukhi script: ਕਜ਼ਾ (kazā)
    Shahmukhi script: قضا (qaẓā)
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Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic قَضَاءً (qaḍāʔan), adverbial accusative of قَضَاء (qaḍāʔ).

Adverb

قضاءً (kazaen)

  1. by chance; accidentally

Descendants

Further reading

  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “kazaen”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911), “قضاء”, in Dictionnaire turc-français (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 963b
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