و ز ر

Arabic

Etymology

Variant of ء ز ر (ʔ-z-r), and also seen in ع ز ر (ʕ-z-r). Inasmuch as formations within the present root are not to be assumed denominal from وَزِير (wazīr) and then of foreign origin.

Root

و ز ر • (w-z-r)

1. related to carrying

Derived terms

Verbs

• Form I: وَزَرَ (wazara, “to carry as a burden”)
  • Verbal noun: وِزْر (wizr)
  • Active participle: وَازِر (wāzir)
  • Passive participle: مَوْزُور (mawzūr)
• Form I: وَزِرَ (wazira, “to commit [+accusative = a sin or crime]; to win over, to vanquish, to superate”)
  • Verbal noun: وَزْر (wazr), وِزْر (wizr), زِرَة (zira)
  • Active participle: وَازِر (wāzir)
  • Passive participle: مَوْزُور (mawzūr)
• Form III: وَازَرَ (wāzara, “to assist as a vizier”)
  • Verbal noun: مُوَازَرَة (muwāzara), وِزَار (wizār)
  • Active participle: مُوَازِر (muwāzir)
  • Passive participle: مُوَازَر (muwāzar)
• Form IV: أَوْزَرَ (ʔawzara, “to protect, to consolidate, to offer refuge to”)
  • Verbal noun: إِيزَار (ʔīzār)
  • Active participle: مُوزِر (mūzir)
  • Passive participle: مُوزَر (mūzar)
• Form V: تَوَزَّرَ (tawazzara, “to be appointed as vizier”)
  • Verbal noun: تَوَزُّر (tawazzur)
  • Active participle: مُتَوَزِّر (mutawazzir)
• Form VIII: اِتَّزَرَ (ittazara)
  • Verbal noun: اِتِّزَار (ittizār)
  • Active participle: مُتَّزِر (muttazir)
  • Passive participle: مُتَّزَر (muttazar)
• Form X: اِسْتَوْزَرَ (istawzara, “to take as or ask to be a vizier”)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِيزَار (istīzār)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَوْزِر (mustawzir)
  • Passive participle: مُسْتَوْزَر (mustawzar)

Nouns

• وِزْر (wizr, “burden; crime, sin, fault; arms or armour carried on the body”)
• وَزَر (wazar, “high mountain or castle, refuge”)
• وَزْرة (wazra, “linen put around the loins when leaving the bath”)
• وَزِير (wazīr, “vizier”)
• وَزَارة (wazāra, “the office of vizier”)
• مُوَازِر (muwāzir, “assistant; vizier”)
• مَوْزُور (mawzūr, “burdened; charged with a crime”)
• مَوْزُورَة (mawzūra, “crime or sin that burdens the conscience”)

References

• Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, pages 1343, 581
• Freytag, Georg (1837) “و ز ر”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 461a
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “و ز ر”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎^[2] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 1527