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- Urdu · borrowed fromقادیان
- English todayQadian
Borrowed from Urdu قادیان (qādiyān), itself a corruption of قاضی ماضی (qāẓī māẓī), shortened to قادی (qādī), and eventually قادیان (qādiyān).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Qadian
Today it means: A town and municipal council in Gurdaspur district, Punjab, India, the founding place of the Ahmadiyya community. Full definition →
Urdu قادیان