وزین

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Ottoman Turkish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic وَزِين (wazīn, weighty, considerable).

Adjective

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وزین (vezin)

  1. heavy, weighty, ponderous, having great weight
    Synonyms: آغر (ağır), ثقیل (sekil), گران (giran)
  2. (of a judgement) weighed, balanced, well-considered

Further reading

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  • 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[1], 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[2], Vienna, column 5369
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “وزین”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2136