وزیر
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See also: وزير
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic وَزِير (wazīr).
Noun
وزیر • (vezir) (plural وزیرلر (vezirler))
Descendants
- Turkish: vezir
- → Bulgarian: вези́р (vezír)
- → Middle French: visir
- French: vizir, visir
- → Catalan: visir
- → Dutch: vizier
- → English: vizier, vezir, vezîr (stricter transliterations of Ottoman Turkish), vazir (via Persian instead of Ottoman Turkish), wasir, wazir, wazīr (directly from Arabic), vizir, vizeer, guazil (less common forms)
- → Italian: visir
- → Portuguese: vizir
- → Spanish: visir
- → German: Wesir
- → Latin: vezirus
- → Lithuanian: viziris
- → Macedonian: везир (vezir)
- → Polish: wezyr
- → Romanian: vizir
- → Russian: визи́рь (vizírʹ)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- → Swedish: vesir
- → Ukrainian: візи́р (vizýr)
Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic وَزِير (wazīr).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key):
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key):
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key):
| Readings | |
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| Classical reading? | wazīr |
| Dari reading? | wazīr |
| Iranian reading? | vazir |
| Tajik reading? | vazir |
Noun
| Dari | وزیر |
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| Tajik | вазир |
وَزیر • (vazir) (plural وزرا (vozarâ) or وزیران (vazirân))
Related terms
- وزارت (vezârat)
Descendants
See also
| Chess pieces in Persian · مهرههای شطرنج (mohre-hâye šatranj) (layout · text) | |||||
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| شاه (šâh) | وزیر (vazir), فرزین (farzin) |
رخ (rox), قلعه (qal'e) |
فیل (fil) | اسب (asb) | پیاده (piyâde), سرباز (sarbâz) |
References
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian وَزیر (vazīr), from Arabic وَزِير (wazīr).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /ʋə.ziːɾ/
Noun
وَزِیر • (vazīr) m (formal plural وُزَرا (vuzarā) or وَزِیران (vazīrān), Hindi spelling वज़ीर)
- (government) minister
- وَزِیرِ تِجارَت ― vazīr-i tijārat ― minister of commerce
- vizier
- (chess) queen / fers
- Synonym: فَرْزِین (farzīn)
Declension
| Declension of وزیر | ||||||||
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| direct | وزیر (vazīr) | وزیر (vazīr) | ||||||
| oblique | وزیر (vazīr) | وزیروں (vazīrõ) | ||||||
| vocative | وزیر (vazīr) | وزیرو (vazīro) | ||||||
Related terms
- وِزارَت (vizārat)
See also
| Chess pieces in Urdu · مہرے کے شطرنج (śatranj ke muhre) (layout · text) | |||||
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| بَادْشَاہ (bādśāh) | وَزِیر (vazīr) | رُخ (rux) | فِیلَہ (fīla) | گھوڑا (ghoṛā) | پِیَادَہ (piyāda) |
References
- “وزیر”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “وزیر”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.