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wazir

wazir noun: vizier.

Noun (1)

wazir (plural wazirs)

  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."1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Night 13
  2. 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.2010 August 21, G. P. Jelliss, “Simple Chess Variants”, in Mayhematics, page 10

Noun (2) capitalized: Wazir

Wazir (plural Wazirs or Wazir)

  1. A member of a tribe of Pashtuns in Waziristan, Pakistan.

Proper noun capitalized: Wazir

Wazir

  1. A surname.

Forms of wazir

pluralwazirs
pluralWazirs
pluralWazir
alternative formWaziri

Origin of wazir

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

From Pashto وزير (Wëzír).

Words that rhyme with wazir

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Questions about wazir

What does wazir mean?
Wazir means vizier.
What part of speech is wazir?
Wazir can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of wazir?
The plural of wazir is wazirs.

Words near wazir in the dictionary

  1. waza-ari
  2. Wazalendo
  3. wazee
  4. wazillion
  5. wazillions
  6. wazir
  7. Waziri
  8. Waziris
  9. Waziristan
  10. Waziristani
  11. wazirs

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