Etymograph

English

kadiasker

Kadiasker comes from Ottoman Turkish قاضیعسكر ‘in the early Ottoman Empire, a chief military…’.

  1. Ottoman Turkishc. 1300–1928قاضیعسكرkadilaskeras قاضی العسكر‘in the early Ottoman Empire, a chief military judge’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1854kadiasker

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Ottoman Turkishc. 1300–1928قاضیعسكرkadilaskeras قاضی العسكر‘in the early Ottoman Empire, a chief military judge’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1854kadiasker

Earliest quotation: 1854, E.S. CREASY, London: RICHARD BENTLEY: “The chiefs of the legal order were, in the…”

The story

A reduced form of Ottoman Turkish قاضی العسكر (kadilasker), see kazasker for more.

Today it means

noun Synonym of kazasker.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Ottoman Turkish قاضیعسكر / kadiasker