वज़ीर-ए-आज़म
Hindi
Alternative forms
- वज़ीरे आज़म (vazīre āzam)
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian وزیر اعظم (vazīr-i a'zam). By surface analysis, वज़ीर (vazīr) + -ए- (-e-) + आज़म (āzam).
Pronunciation
- (Delhi Hindi) IPA(key): /ʋə.ziː.ɾeː.ɑː.zəm/, [ʋə.ziː.ɾeː.äː.zə̃m], /ʋə.d͡ʒiː.ɾeː.ɑː.d͡ʒəm/, [ʋə.d͡ʒiː.ɾeː.äː.d͡ʒə̃m]
- Hyphenation: व‧ज़ीर‧ए‧आ‧ज़म
- Rhymes: -əm
Noun
वज़ीर-ए-आज़म • (vazīr-e-āzam) m (Urdu spelling وَزِیرِ اَعْظَم)
- prime minister
- वज़ीर-ए-आज़म का घर बहुत महफ़ूज़ है।
- vazīr-e-āzam kā ghar bahut mahfūz hai.
- The prime minister's house is very safe.
- Synonym: प्रधान मंत्री (pradhān mantrī)
Declension
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Further reading
- Hardev Bahri (2013), “वज़ीरे_आज़म”, in राजपाल हिंदी शब्दकोश, Rajpal and Sons, →ISBN
- Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975), “वजीर”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi [Varanasi]: Nagari Pracarini Sabha, page 4356
- McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993), “वज़ीर”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 906
- “वज़ीर-ए-आ'ज़म”, in Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2023.