different between wazir vs vizier

English

Etymology

Borrowed straightway from Arabic ??????? (waz?r, “helper, aide, minister”, literally “one who bears (the burden of office)”). Doublet of vizier.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??(?)

Noun

wazir (plural wazirs)

1. Alternative form of vizier
   • 1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Night 13

     The Wazir brought him and the King said, "Give him a thousand miskals of gold from the treasury, and load him ten camels with goods for trade, and send him under escort to his own town."

English

Alternative forms

• vazir, vezir, vizir, wazir

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ????? (vezir) (Turkish vezir) (plausibly via French visir, vizir or Spanish visir), from Arabic ??????? (waz?r, “helper, aide, minister”, literally “one who bears (the burden of office)”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /v??z??/, /?v?z??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /v??z??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Noun

vizier (plural viziers)

1. A high-ranking official or minister in an Islamic government, especially in the Ottoman Empire.
2. vicegerent, viceroy
3. (chess) a fairy chess piece that can only be moved one space up, down, left or right.

Derived terms

• grand vizier
• vizierate
• vizieress
• vizierial
• viziership

Translations

See also

• wazir

References

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch visiere, from Old French visiere.

Noun

vizier n (plural vizieren, diminutive viziertje n)

1. visor, a removable protective guard on a (knight's) helmet
2. backsight, a visual aiming aid on the barrel of a gun

Etymology 2

From Middle French visir, from Ottoman Turkish ????? (vezir), from Arabic ??????? (waz?r, “helper, aide, minister”).

Noun

vizier m (plural viziers or vizieren, diminutive viziertje n)

1. A high-ranking official or minister in an Islamic government, especially in the Ottoman Empire.

Derived terms

• grootvizier m
• vizierschap n

References

• M. J. Koenen & J. Endepols, Verklarend Handwoordenboek der Nederlandse Taal (tevens Vreemde-woordentolk), Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, 1969 (26th edition) [Dutch dictionary in Dutch]