minister (a person who is commissioned by the government for public service) · one who does something on behalf of the church · minister (rank below ambassador)
çekim: çoğul ministros
köken: Learned borrowing from Latin ministrum (“attendant”), from minus (“less”).
aile: ministro de estado, ministro de primeira classe, ministro de segunda classe, ministro plenipotenciário, primeiro-ministro
minister, secretary (politician who heads a ministry or department)
çekim: çoğul υπουργοί · tamlayan υπουργού
köken: From Ancient Greek ὑπουργός (hupourgós, “servant, helper”), from ὑπό (hupó, “under”) + -ουργός (-ourgós, “worker”) (see ἔργον (érgon, “work”)). The modern sense is a semantic loan from Italian ministro.
minister (politician who heads a ministry) · high-ranking official in the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland · minister (a person who is trained to preach, to perform religious ceremonies, and to afford pastoral care at a Protestant church)
çekim: çoğul ministrowie · tamlayan ministra
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mey- Proto-Indo-European *-néwti Proto-Indo-European *minéwti Proto-Italic *minuō? Proto-Indo-European *-yōs Proto-Italic *-(j)ōs? Proto-Italic *minōs Proto-Indo-European *-teros Proto-Italic *-teros Proto-Italic *minosteros Latin ministerlbor. Old Polish minister ▲ French ministresl. Polish minister Inherited from Old Polish minister. Noun 1 sense 1 is a…
aile: ministerialny, ministerski, minister bez teki, ministerstwo, prezes Rady Ministrów, Rada Ministrów
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…