• Kadi

    Full definition of kadi

    Noun

    kadi

    (plural kadis)
    1. Alternative form of qadi
      • 1907, Various, The Olive Fairy Book Chapter , To this the Jew agreed, and the two went together to the great hall, in which the kadi was administering justice.
      • 1898, Rounsevelle Wildman, Tales of the Malayan Coast Chapter , "You shall go to Mecca when you grow up, and become a Hadji, and when you come back the high kadi shall take you in the mosque and make a kateeb of you," said I. "Now put your forehead to the ground and thank the good Allah that the kuching had eaten dog before he got you."
      • 1836, Robert Huish, Lander's Travels Chapter , Each has an imaum, but the kadi is their head, of which dignity he seems not a little proud.
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