وزیر

See also: وزير

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic وَزِير (wazīr).

Noun

وزیر • (vezir) (plural وزیرلر (vezirler))

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

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)
    • → Irish: visír
    • → Welsh: fisir
  • → Italian: visir
  • → Portuguese: vizir
  • → Spanish: visir
• → German: Wesir
• → Latin: vezirus
• → Lithuanian: viziris
• → Macedonian: везир (vezir)
• → Polish: wezyr
• → Romanian: vizir
• → Russian: визи́рь (vizírʹ)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: вѐзӣр

  Latin script: vèzīr

• → Swedish: vesir
• → Ukrainian: візи́р (vizýr)

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic وَزِير (wazīr).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [wa.ˈziːɾ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [wä.zíːɾ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [wä.zíːɾ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [wä.zíːɾ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [wä.zíɾ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [væ.zíːɹ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [vä.zíɾ]

Readings
Classical reading?	wazīr
Dari reading?	wazīr
Iranian reading?	vazir
Tajik reading?	vazir

Noun

Dari	وزیر
Iranian Persian
Tajik	вазир

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

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

Related terms

• وزارت (vezârat)

 

Descendants

• Dari: وزیر (wazīr)
• Iranian Persian: وزیر (vazir)
• Tajik: вазир (vazir)
• → Azerbaijani: vəzir／вәзир
• → Bengali: উজির (uzir)
• → Chagatai: وزیر
  • → Uyghur: ۋەزىر (wezir), вәзир (wezir)
  • → Uzbek: vazir／вазир
• → Gujarati: વજીર (vajīr)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: वज़ीर (vazīr), विज़ीर (vizīr)

  Urdu: وَزیر (vazīr)

• → Ottoman Turkish: وزیر (vezir) (see there for further descendants)
• → Pashto: وزیر

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)

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)

1. (government) minister

   وَزِیرِ تِجارَت ― vazīr-i tijārat ― minister of commerce

2. vizier
3. (chess) queen / fers

   Synonym: فَرْزِین (farzīn)

Declension

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

Related terms

• وِزارَت (vizārat)

 

See also

Chess pieces in Urdu · مہرے کے شطرنج (śatranj ke muhre) (layout · text)
بَادْشَاہ (bādśāh)	وَزِیر (vazīr)	رُخ (rux)	فِیلَہ (fīla)	گھوڑا (ghoṛā)	پِیَادَہ (piyāda)

References

• “وزیر”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “وزیر”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.