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.ˈziːr/

 

• (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

وزیر • (wazīr / vazir) (plural وزرا (wuzarā / vozarâ), or وزیران (wazīrān / vazirân), Tajik spelling вазир)

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

Related terms

• وزارت (wizārat / vezârat)

Descendants

• Dari: وزیر (wazīr)
• Iranian Persian: وزیر (vazir)
• Tajik: вазир (vazir)
• → Azerbaijani: vəzir / вәзир
• → Bengali: উজির (uzir)
• → Chagatai: وزیر (wzyr)
  • → 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), فرزین (farzin)	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 (vazīrõ)
vocative	وزیر (vazīr)	وزیرو (vazīro)

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, 2026.
• Platts, John T. (1884), “وزیر”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.