قضاء

Arabic

Root
ق ض ي (q ḍ y)
14 terms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /qɑˈd̪ˤɑːʔ/
  • Rhymes: -aːʔ

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

Declension

Declension of noun قَضَاء (qaḍāʔ)
singular basic singular triptote
indefinite definite construct
informal قَضَاء
qaḍāʔ
الْقَضَاء
al-qaḍāʔ
قَضَاء
qaḍāʔ
nominative قَضَاءٌ
qaḍāʔun
الْقَضَاءُ
al-qaḍāʔu
قَضَاءُ
qaḍāʔu
accusative قَضَاءً
qaḍāʔan
الْقَضَاءَ
al-qaḍāʔa
قَضَاءَ
qaḍāʔa
genitive قَضَاءٍ
qaḍāʔin
الْقَضَاءِ
al-qaḍāʔi
قَضَاءِ
qaḍāʔi
dual indefinite definite construct
informal قَضَاءَيْن
qaḍāʔayn
الْقَضَاءَيْن
al-qaḍāʔayn
قَضَاءَيْ
qaḍāʔay
nominative قَضَاءَانِ
qaḍāʔāni
الْقَضَاءَانِ
al-qaḍāʔāni
قَضَاءَا
qaḍāʔā
accusative قَضَاءَيْنِ
qaḍāʔayni
الْقَضَاءَيْنِ
al-qaḍāʔayni
قَضَاءَيْ
qaḍāʔay
genitive قَضَاءَيْنِ
qaḍāʔayni
الْقَضَاءَيْنِ
al-qaḍāʔayni
قَضَاءَيْ
qaḍāʔay
plural broken plural triptote in ـَة (-a)
indefinite definite construct
informal أَقْضِيَة
ʔaqḍiya
الْأَقْضِيَة
al-ʔaqḍiya
أَقْضِيَة
ʔaqḍiyat
nominative أَقْضِيَةٌ
ʔaqḍiyatun
الْأَقْضِيَةُ
al-ʔaqḍiyatu
أَقْضِيَةُ
ʔaqḍiyatu
accusative أَقْضِيَةً
ʔaqḍiyatan
الْأَقْضِيَةَ
al-ʔaqḍiyata
أَقْضِيَةَ
ʔaqḍiyata
genitive أَقْضِيَةٍ
ʔaqḍiyatin
الْأَقْضِيَةِ
al-ʔaqḍiyati
أَقْضِيَةِ
ʔaqḍiyati

Derived terms

  • قَضَاءٌ وَقَدَرٌ (qaḍāʔun wa-qadarun, coordinated pair)

Descendants

  • Ottoman Turkish: قضا (kaza)
    • Turkish: kaza
    • Albanian: kaza
    • Armenian: խազա (xaza), կա̈զա̈ (käzä)
    • Bulgarian: кааза̀ (kaazà)
    • English: kaza
    • French: casa
    • Greek: καζάς (kazás)
    • Macedonian: каза (kaza)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: каза
      Latin script: kaza
  • Persian: قضاء
  • Punjabi:
    Gurmukhi script: ਕਜ਼ਾ (kazā)
    Shahmukhi script: قضا (qaẓā)

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[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 963b