Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قاضی (judge). First attested in the 14th century.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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kàdija m (Cyrillic spelling ка̀дија)

  1. (regional, archaic) judge

Declension

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References

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  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2016) “kàdija”, in Dunja Brozović Rončević, Dubravka Ivšić Majić, Tijmen Pronk, editors, Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika [Etymological dictionary of the Croatian language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes I: A—Nj, Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, page 415

Further reading

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  • kadija” in Hrvatski jezični portal