minister, cabinet minister · vizier · helper, assistant
çekim: çoğul وُزَرَاء · tamlayan وَزِيرٍ
köken: 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…
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