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…
a lady ((respectful way to refer to a) woman – similar tone to English in different contexts) · a woman (idiomatically, in some contexts, for example women's clothing and women's sports – often paired with herre as a respectful term for a man) · the ladies' room, the ladies' (short for damernas toalett)
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dem- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *dṓmder. Proto-Italic *domanos Proto-Italic *domanā Latin domina Late Latin domna Old French dame French damebor. Polish dama Borrowed from French dame. Doublet of domina.
köken: kuningas (“king”) + -tar (“-ess”). Coined by Finnish explorer, historian and author Carl Axel Gottlund in 1828. The cooking sense originally from kuningatarhillo, making it a semantic loan from Swedish drottning (from drottningsylt)
queen regnant (a female monarch who reigns in her own right, in contrast to a queen consort, who is the wife of a reigning king) · queen (the most powerful piece, able to move any number of spaces horizontally, vertically, or diagonally) · queen bee (a reproductive female (especially the only one) in a colony of bees)
Borrowed from Classical Persian وَزٖیر (wazīr), from Arabic وَزِيرٌ m (wazīrun, “helper, aide, minister”, indefinite nominative singular, literally “one who bears (the burden of office)”). Compare also Kyrgyz вазир (vazir), Bashkir вәзир (vəzir), Tatar вәзир (wäzir), Crimean Tatar vezir; Uzbek vazir, Uyghur ۋەزىر (wezir), Turkish vezir, etc.