وزير

Meaning

1. minister, cabinet minister
2. vizier
3. helper, assistant
4. queen

Concepts

minister

acolyte

adjunct

aid

assistant

assistants

auxiliary

backer

backers

bailiff

coadjutor

help

helper

helpers

helpmate

helpmates

helpmeet

queen

👸

servant

supporters

Secretary

abettors

abetter

abetters

Translations

ministre

Minister

minister

ministro

ministro

şalyar

ministre

ministro

wezîr

bakan

υπουργόσ

Hilfskraft

Assistentin

Dame

Pronounced as (IPA)

/wa.ziːr/

Etymology

The original attested meaning is “assistant”, and the political sense only arose in the Umayyad period. Likely related to the verb وَزَرَ (wazara, “to carry, to shoulder”) with the root و ز ر (w z r), meaning “someone who carries a burden”, but owing to the idea of assistance by handmen this may be denominal. Likely borrowed from an Iranian term surfacing as Middle Persian [script needed] (wcyl /⁠vičīr⁠/, “decision, judgment”), Avestan 𐬬𐬍𐬗𐬌𐬭𐬀 (vīcira, “arbitrator, judge”, literally “deciding, one who is taking or has made a decision”).