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qāẓī(for A. قاضٍ qāẓiṉfor qāẓiyuṉ, act. part. of قصی 'to judge, to decree,' etc.), s.m. A judge; a (Muhammadan) judge or magistrate (who passes sentence in all cases of law, religious, moral, civil, and criminal):—a controversialist; a litigious person:—qāẓi’l-ḥājāt, s.m. 'The Judge of the necessities (of mankind,' i.e. God):—qāẓi’l-quẓāt, s.m. The chief or supreme judge; the head Qāẓī(under the British government,—an office now abolished);—qāẓī-kāpiyāda, A constable or peon of the Qāẓī:—a high-handed functionary:—jaunpur-kāqāẓī, (colloq.) 'Judge of Jaunpur'; a stupid fellow, a doit.
Origin: Persian