Wazir

name, noun

name, noun ·2 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Vizier.

    "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.""

  2. 2
    A member of a tribe of Pashtuns in Waziristan, Pakistan.
  3. 3
    A fairy chess piece that moves one square orthogonally.

    "Another type of rider is the Mao which is the knight in Chinese chess. It makes its move in two steps, a noncapturing wazir move followed by a fers move, so the cell moved through must be vacant. The Moa (W.Speckman) is a knight that moves as fers followed by wazir."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.

Synonyms

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guazil

Example

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"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.""

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Arabic وَزِير (wazīr, “helper, aide, minister”, literally “one who bears (the burden of office)”). Doublet of vizier.

Etymology 2

From Pashto وزير (Wëzír).

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