kazasker

From Ottoman Turkish قاضیعسكر (kazasker), a reduced form of قاضی العسكر (kadilasker), from قاضی (kazı, kadı, “qadi”) and عسكر ('asker, “soldier”); compare قَاضِي العَسْكَر (qāḍī l-ʕaskar, “military judge”), from قَاضٍ (qāḍin, “judge”) + عَسْكَر (ʕaskar, “troops”). So called because the judge's jurisdiction originally extended to military cases.

kazasker (plural kazaskers)

1. (historical) A chief judge in the Ottoman Empire. There were two kadiaskers: the Rumeli Kadiaskeri, who oversaw the European part of the empire, and the Anadolu Kadiaskeri, who oversaw the Asian part.

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قاضیعسكر (kazasker), a reduced form of قاضی العسكر (kadilasker), from قاضی (kazı, kadı, “qadi”) and عسكر ('asker, “soldier”). By surface analysis, kadı +‎ asker.

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.zas.ceɾ/
• Hyphenation: ka‧zas‧ker

kazasker (definite accusative kazaskeri, plural kazaskerler)

1. (historical) kazasker

• “kazasker”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010), “kazasker”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “kazasker”, in Nişanyan Sözlük