The story
- Arabic · derived fromقَضَاء“jurisdiction, court circuit”
- Ottoman Turkish · borrowed fromقضا“division of a sanjak”
- English todaykaza
From Ottoman Turkish قضا (kaza, “division of a sanjak”), from Arabic قَضَاء (qaḍāʔ, “jurisdiction, court circuit”), from قَضَى (qaḍā, “to decide, to judge”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.