قضا

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Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic قَضَاء (qaḍāʔ, “judgement; jurisdiction”).

Noun

قضا • (kaza)

(law) judgment, the decision or sentence of a judge
Synonym: یارغو (yargı)
judgeship, judicature, the office or status of a judge
jurisdiction, the territory in which a judge exercises his functions
(historical) kaza, a subdistrict, or third-level administrative division of the Ottoman Empire
(theology) divine will or decree, thus providence, destiny
Synonym: قدر (kader)
(by extension) accident, mishap, mischance, an unexpected and negative event

Derived terms

قضا و قدر (kaza ve kader, “God's decree”)
قضالق (kazalık, “extent of country sufficient for a district”)
قضالو (kazalı, “containing districts”)

Descendants

Turkish: kaza
→ Albanian: kaza
→ Armenian: խազա (xaza), կա̈զա̈ (käzä)
→ Bulgarian: кааза̀ (kaazà)
→ English: kaza
→ French: casa
→ Greek: καζάς (kazás)
→ Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic script: каза

Latin script: kaza

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kaza1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2504
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قضا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 963
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Judicium”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 883
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قضا”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, columns 3713-3714
Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kaza”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قضا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1460

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic قَضَاء (qaḍāʔ, “judgement, jurisdiction”)

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key):

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key):
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key):
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key):

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key):

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key):

Readings
Classical reading^?	qazā
Dari reading^?	qazā
Iranian reading^?	ğazâ
Tajik reading^?	qazo


Iranian Persian	قضا
Dari	قضا
Tajik	қaзо

Noun

قضا • (qazâ)

judgement, sentence, decree
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی, volume I, verse 3813:
  در شریعت مر گواهی بنده را
  نیست قدری وقت دعوی و قضا
  dar šarī'at mar guwāh-ē-i banda rā
  nist qadr-ē waqt-i da'wā u qazā
  In the religious law the testimony of a slave
  has no value at the time of litigation and judgement.
fate, destiny
accident, chance, fortuity
fulfillment, accomplishment

References

Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “قضا”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

Ushojo

Etymology

From Arabic قضاء (qaḍāʔ).

Noun

قضا (qazā)

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