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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic وَزِين (wazīn, “weighty, considerable”).
Adjective
وزین • (vezin)
- heavy, weighty, ponderous, having great weight
- Synonyms: آغر (ağır), ثقیل (sekil), گران (giran)
- (of a judgement) weighed, balanced, well-considered
Further reading
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Ponderosus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 1316
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “وزین”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 5369
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “وزین”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2136