| Kadı |
: |
a judge administering both
seriat and kanun |
| Kadıasker |
: |
a highest judicial authority
of the empire after the seyhulislam |
| Kafes |
: |
an apartment in the Palace
in which a royal prince was secluded |
| Kahya Bey |
: |
the grand vizier's agent in
military and political matters |
| Kalfa |
: |
a senior clerk in the bureaucracy |
| Kanun |
: |
a secular law or laws issued
by the Sultan.
|
| Kanun-i Osmani |
: |
the legal code of the Ottoman
sultans |
| Kanunname |
: |
a code of laws; a collection
of sultanic laws |
| Kapi |
: |
'gate' , 'porte' , ottoman
goverment |
| Kapikulu |
: |
'slave of the Porte', a devsirme
or slave employed in military, administative or Palace Service |
| Kapudan-i Derya |
: |
the grand admiral of the Ottoman
fleet |
| Kethuda |
: |
steward, agent, representative
of an organization to the goverment |
| Kiler |
: |
the office of the palace larder |
| Kul |
: |
a slave of the sultan |
| Levend |
: |
a landless and unemployed person |
