different between wazir vs wair

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

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /w??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /w??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophones: ware, wear

Etymology 1

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Noun

wair (plural wairs)

1. A plank six feet long and one foot across.

Etymology 2

Verb

wair (third-person singular simple present wairs, present participle wairing, simple past and past participle waired)

1. (Scotland, obsolete) To spend.
   • 1826, Mungo Ponton Brown, Supplement to the Dictionary of the Decisions of the Court of Session, Volume 3, Edinburgh, page 569,

     […] they find there was no lesion to the minor by setting the said tack, and that the money waired out by the defender, in building and reparations, viz not only the ?1317 Scots first given out, but also the ?326 last waired by the defender, […]

   • 1831 [1566], John Knox, William McGavin (editor), The History of the Reformation of Religion in Scotland, page 94,

     We shall maintain them, nourish them, and defend them, the whole congregation of Christ, and every member thereof, at our whole powers and wairing [spending] of our lives, against Satan, and all wicked power that does intend tyranny or trouble against the foresaid congregation.

   • 1841, William Alexander, An Abridgement of the Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland, 1424—1707, page 243,

     […] Reserving alwayes to the Sheriff or other Magistrates, and taker of the Thief, the expences waired out by them in taking and putting the Thief to execution.

Etymology 3

Verb

wair

1. Nonstandard form of were.
   • 1897, Henry Christopher McCook The Latimers: A Tale of the Western Insurrection of 1794, 2007, page 18,

     We didn't al'ays stay here, but wair on the wing here and thar where game was most plentiful, and often in company with the Mingoes, who wair our sworn fri'nds an' allies.

References

Anagrams

• Wari, iWar, wari

Gothic

Romanization

wair

1. Romanization of ????????????????

Sika

Noun

wair

1. water

References

• Blust's Austronesian Comparative Dictionary

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wai?r/

Noun

wair

1. Soft mutation of gwair.

Mutation