وزیر

وزیر

See also: وزير‎

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic وَزِير‎ (wazīr).

Noun

وزیر‎ • (vezir) m, وزیرلر‎ (vezirler) pl

1. minister, cabinet minister
2. vizier
3. helper, assistant
4. (chess) queen

Descendants

• Turkish: vezir
• → Bulgarian: везир (vezir)
• → Catalan: visir
• → Dutch: vizier
• → French: vizir, visir
  • → English: vizier, vezir, vezîr; vazir; wasir, wazir, wazīr; vizir, vizeer, guazil
    • → Irish: visír
    • → Welsh: fisir
• → German: Wesir
• → Italian: visir
• → Latin: vezirus
• → Lithuanian: viziris
• → Polish: wezyr
• → Portuguese: vizir
• → Romanian: vizir
• → Russian: визирь (vizirʹ)
• → Serbo-Croatian: везир, vezir
• → Spanish: visir
• → Swedish: vesir

See also

Roman spelling: vezir

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Persian

Etymology

From Arabic وَزِير‎ (wazīr).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian): IPA^(key): /waziːɾ/

• (Dari): IPA^(key): /waziːɾ/

• (Iranian Persian): IPA^(key): /væziːɾ/
• (Tajik): IPA^(key): /vaziɾ/

Noun

Dari	وزیر
Iranian Persian
Tajik	вазир (vazir)

وزیر • (vazir) (plural وزرا‎ (vozarâ) or وزیران‎ (vazirân))

1. minister
2. vizier
3. (chess) queen

Related terms

• وزارت‎

See also

Chess pieces in Persian · مهره‌های شطرنج‎ (mohre-hâye šatranj) (layout · text)
شاه‎ (šâh)	وزیر (vazir)	رخ‎ (rox), قلعه‎ (qal'e)	فیل‎ (fil)	اسب‎ (asb)	پیاده‎ (piyâde), سرباز‎ (sarbâz)

References

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Urdu

Etymology

From Persian وزیر‎ (vazir), from Arabic وَزِير‎ (wazīr).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ʋə.ziːɾ/

Noun

وَزِیرِ • (vazīr) m (Hindi spelling वज़ीर) — plural وزرا‎ (vuzarā), وزیران‎ (vazīrān), وزیرے‎ (vazire)

1. minister
2. vizier
3. (chess) queen

Declension

Declension of وزیر
	singular	plural
direct	وزیر‎ (vazīr)	وزیر‎ (vazīr)
oblique	وزیر‎ (vazīr)	وزیروں‎ (vazīrō̃)
vocative	وزیر‎ (vazīr)	وزیرو‎ (vazīrō)

Related terms

• وزارت‎ (vizārat)