qadi

1. 1.

   an Islamic judge

   Broaderjudge

Other forms of qadi

plural

qadis·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about qadi

What does qadi mean?

qadi means "an Islamic judge".

How many syllables are in qadi?

qadi has 2 syllables: qa-di. The stress falls on "qa".

Is qadi a common word?

qadi is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.