cadilesker
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Ottoman Turkish, from Arabic قَاضِي العَسْكَر (qāḍī l-ʕaskar, “military judge”): قَاضٍ (qāḍin, “judge”) + عَسْكَر (ʕaskar, “troops”), because his jurisdiction originally extended to military cases.
Noun
editcadilesker (plural cadileskers)
- (historical) A chief judge in the Ottoman Empire.
References
edit- “cadilesker”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.