Etymology

kadi

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Ottoman Turkish قاضی ← Arabic قَاضِي
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The story

  1. Arabic · derived fromقَاضِي
  2. Ottoman Turkish · borrowed fromقاضی
  3. English todaykadi

From Ottoman Turkish قاضی (kadı), from Arabic قَاضِي (qāḍī), and from Arabic directly.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.