# وزیر
## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic وَزِير (wazīr).

### Noun

وزیر • (vezir) (plural وزیرلر (vezirler))
* minister, cabinet minister
* vizier
* helper, assistant
* (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: [wa.ˈziːɾ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [wä.zíːɾ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [wä.zíːɾ]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [wä.zíːɾ]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [wä.zíɾ]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [væ.zíːɹ]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [vä.zíɾ]

### Noun

| Dari | وزیر |
| Iranian Persian | وزیر |
| Tajik | вазир |
وَزیر • (vazir) (plural وزرا (vozarâ) or وزیران (vazirân))
* minister
* vizier
* (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), 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: /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 :
| | 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, 2025.
* Platts, John T. (1884) “وزیر”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.