Estonian

Proper noun

Kadi

1. A female given name, variant of Katariina ‎(“Catherine”).

English

Noun

kadi ‎(plural kadis)

1. Alternative spelling of qadi
   • 1907, Various, The Olive Fairy Book:

     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:

     "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:

     Each has an imaum, but the kadi is their head, of which dignity he seems not a little proud.

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

Arabic (indefinite) قَاضٍ ‎(qāḍin), (definite) الْقَاضِي ‎(al-qāḍī)

Noun

kadi

1. Moslem judge

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *kъdě, *kъde, from Proto-Indo-European *kwu-dhē.

Adverb

kadi

1. (Chakavian) where

Pronoun

kadi

1. (Chakavian) where

Synonyms

• gdje

Swahili

Etymology

From English card.

Noun

kadi (n class, plural kadi)

1. card

Tboli

Noun

kadi

1. (anatomy) dimple