How to say "judge" in Arabic
LoanwordMeaningjudge
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
قَاضِي
qāḍīקאצ'י
قاضي
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
שופט
shofetشُوفِت
How the two words are related
Loanword
Borrowed between the languages (or by both from a third).
Arabic root
ق-ض-يHebrew took קאדי straight from Arabic — qāḍī courts for Muslim family law operate in Israel to this day. Formal MSA spells the word قَاضٍ; everyday speech says qāḍī.
Related Hebrew word:קאדיkadiكَادِي
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How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.
Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta
قَاضِي
ʾāḍiאאצ'יCairo turns the qāf into a glottal stop: ʾāḍi.
In a phrase
قَرَار الْقَاضِي
qarār al-qāḍīקראר אל-קאצ'יthe judge's decision
Plural
قُضَاة
quḍāhקצ'אהbroken plural CuCāh, the pattern for weak-final CāCī nouns (qāḍī→quḍāh)