deriv► ḥammala-hū wizra ‑hū, to make s.o. bear the responsibility for s.th., make s.o. answerable for s.th.
► waḍaʕat-i ’l-ḥarbu ʔawzāra ‑hā, the war has come to an end: cf. Q 47:4. ► wazara (1), yaziru (wizr), vb. I, to take upon o.s., carry (a burden): denom.?
► wazara (2), yaziru, and wazira, yawzaru (wizr, wazr, ziraẗ), vb. I, to commit a sin: fig. use of preceding?
► wāzara, vb. III, to help, assist, aid, support (ʕalà in s.th.): L-stem, associative (*‘to carry the burden together with s.o.’). Or var. of ↗ʔāzara ‘id.’, from ↗ʔazara ‘to surround, gird’?
► ʔawzara, vb. IV, to support, back up, strengthen s.o.’s (DO) arm: probably denom. from †waz(a)r ‘(mountain-) refuge’ (see WZR_6 s.v. ↗WZR), lit. *‘to provide a refuge for s.o.’?
► tawazzara, vb. V, to become a (cabinet) minister: t-stem (quasi-pass.) of D-stem *wazzara ‘to appoint as vizier, minister’, appell., denom. from wazīr.
► tawāzara, vb. VI, to help each other: t-stem of III, recipr.
► ĭttazara, vb. VIII, 1 ↗wazraẗ. – 2 to commit a sin: t-stem (< *ĭwtazara), denom. from wizr [v2].
► ĭstawzara, vb. X, 1 to appoint as (cabinet) minister; 2 to be appointed as (cabinet) minister: Št-stem, request., denom. from wazīr (*‘to ask s.o. to be a minister’ or *‘to aspire to become a minister’).
► BP#96wazīr, pl. wuzarāʔ, n., 1 (cabinet) minister; 2 vizier; 3 queen (in chess): [v1] is modern, [v3] term.tech., both from [v2], which existed in the meaning of †‘helper’ as a quasi-PP of vb. I, lit. *‘loaded with a burden (wizr)’, but then merged with, and was superseded by, a loanword from mPers. – For details and compounds, see ↗s.v.
► BP#217wizāraẗ, pl. -āt, n.f., 1 ministry; 2 rank of minister; 3 cabinet, government: n.prof., from wazīr. – For compounds see ↗s.v.
► BP#2900wizārī, adj., ministerial: nsb-adj., from wizāraẗ. For other items of √WZR, cf. ↗WZR, ↗wizraẗ, ↗wazaraẗ.