Meaning of wazir | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A member of a tribe of Pashtuns in Waziristan, Pakistan.
2. A surname.
3. Vizier.
4. A fairy chess piece that moves one square orthogonally.

Examples

“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."”

“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.”

CEFR level