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Wadi vs Qadi - What's the difference?

wadi | qadi |

As nouns the difference between wadi and qadi

is that wadi is a valley, gully, or stream bed in northern africa and southwest asia that remains dry except during the rainy season while qadi is (islam|legal) a civil judge in certain islamic countries.

wadi

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A valley, gully, or stream bed in northern Africa and southwest Asia that remains dry except during the rainy season.

    • qadi

    English

    (wikipedia qadi)

    Alternative forms

    * cadi * kadi * Kazi * qazi

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Islam, legal) A civil judge in certain Islamic countries.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1907, author=Various, title=The Olive Fairy Book, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=To this the Jew agreed, and the two went together to the great hall, in which the kadi was administering justice. }}
  • * 1985 , Yasmin Hussain, Sharon Siddique, Ahmad Ibrahim, Readings on Islam in Southeast Asia :
    • legal treatises dealing with the subject usually spoke of the appointment to office of a qadi [...].
  • * 1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game , Folio Society 2010, p. 74:
    • The Qazi , his spiritual adviser, had recommended that the Russian be taken out into the desert and buried alive [...].
  • * 2011 , Jill Hamilton, The Guardian , 22 Jul 2011:
    • While sharia law for divorce in many Muslim countries has been modified by governments, in Israel reform was initiated by qadis .

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    * English words containing Q not followed by U