قضاء

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Arabic

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Root
ق ض ي (q-ḍ-y)

Pronunciation

Noun

قَضَاء (qaḍāʔm (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

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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, Constantinople: Mihran, page 963b