kaza

• caza

From Ottoman Turkish قضا (kaza, “division of a sanjak”), from Arabic قَضَاء (qaḍāʔ, “jurisdiction, court circuit”), from قَضَى (qaḍā, “to decide, to judge”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaza/

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kaza (plural kazas)

1. (politics) A subdistrict, particularly (historical) a third-level administrative division of the Ottoman Empire.

• kaymakamlik

• vilayet, sanjak, nahiyah
• kaymakam

• qadi, cadi, alcalde

• “kaza, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2020.

From Ottoman Turkish قضا (kaza, “division of a sanjak”), from Arabic قَضَاء (qaḍāʔ, “jurisdiction, court circuit”), from قَضَى (qaḍā, “to decide, to judge”).

kaza f

1. (politics) kaza, particularly (historical) as a former second-level administrative division of Albania

• vilajet, sanxhak, nahijë, fshat

Of unclear origin. Clear cognates of the same meaning within Chadic (e.g. Karekare kyéézì, Bade kâzá, Ngizim gā̂za, Ngamo gā̀zâ, Bole gājà, Duwai kīzhìya) may be the result of diffusion, rather than inheritance. Perhaps borrowed from Kanuri kájì (“guinea fowl”) or a Berber language, e.g. Tamasheq ékăz (“rooster”).

• IPA^(key): /kàː.záː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [kàː.záː]

kā̀zā f (plural kā̀jī, possessed form kā̀zar̃)

1. chicken, hen

• zakara (“rooster”)

• Kossmann, Maarten (2005) Berber Loanwords in Hausa (Berber Studies; 12), Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, →ISBN, →ISSN

From Portuguese casa.

kaza

1. house
2. home

• cazza, ca (Haketia)

From Latin casa (“cottage”).

kaza f (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling קאזה)

1. house

Apparently borrowed from Russian коза́ (kozá): note that the words for “male goat” and “female goat” in Latvian are non-cognate (āzis and kaza), unlike other Baltic languages (Lithuanian ožỹs, ožkà; Old Prussian wosux ([vōzuks]), wosee ([vōzē])), which suggests that an earlier Latvian term, perhaps *āze (apparently present in place names like Āzes), was replaced by the borrowed kaza.[1]

• IPA^(key): [kaza]

kaza f (4th declension)

1. goat (esp. Capra aegagrus hircus)

   mājas kazas ― domestic goats

   kalnu kazas ― mountain goats

   kazu vilna ― goat wool

   kazas bārda ― goat beard

2. female goat

   kazu piens ― goat milk

   kazu siers ― goat cheese

   slaukt kazu ― to milk the goat

3. (colloquial) unruly, flippant, frivolous girl or woman

• āzis
• kazlēns

kaza (Cyrillic spelling каза)

1. second/third-person singular aorist of kazati

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-kaza (infinitive kukaza)

1. Causative form of -kaa: to persist, intensify
2. (clothing) to tighten

• Verbal derivations:
  • Applicative: -kazia (“emphasise”)
  • Passive: -kazwa
  • Reciprocal: -kazana (“to make an effort”)

• Nominal derivations:
  • mkazo (“force, emphasis”)

From Ottoman Turkish قضا (kaza), from Arabic قَضَاء (qaḍāʔ).

• IPA^(key): [kɑˈzɑː]

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• Hyphenation: ka‧za

kaza (definite accusative kazayı, plural kazalar)

1. accident
2. subprovince

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قضا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 963b
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kaza”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaza/
• Rhymes: -aza
• Syllabification: ka‧za

kaza

1. third-person singular present of kazać