و ز ر

وَاْزَرَ [ وَازرهُ He bore a burden with him. ― -b2- [Hence,] وازر المَلِكَ أَعْبَا=ءَ المُلْكِ (tropical:) He bore with the king ( حَامَلَهُ ) the burden of the regal office. (A.) See also 1, last signification. ― -b3- وازرهُ عَلَى الأَمْرِ , (TA,) inf. n. مُوَازَرَةٌ , (A, TA,) He aided, assisted, or helped, him, and strengthened him, to do the thing: originally ا=زَرَهُ : (A, * TA:) the former of these, وازره , is the more chaste. (TA.)

اوزرهُ He appointed him a وَزَر , (K, TA,) i. e., a place of refuge to which to betake himself. (TA.)

تَوَزَّرَ see 1, last signification.

اـِتَّزَرَ , of the measure اـِفْتَعَلَ , (S, Msb,) [originally اـِوْتَزَرَ ,] (tropical:) He committed a وِزْر , (S, K,) i. e., a sin. (Msb, TA.)

اـِستوزرهُ (tropical:) He took him, or chose him, as a وَزِير [or vicegerent]. (K.) You say, أُسْتُوزِرَ فُلَانٌ (tropical:) Such a one was taken, or chosen, as a وزير . (S, A. *)

وِزْرٌ A heavy load or burden, (A, Mgh, K,) a bundle, (S,) or great bundle, (K,) that is carried on the back: (S, K:) a weight; syn. ثقل : (S, [in which the syn. is written ثِقْل : so in two copies; and so app. accord. to A 'Obeyd, who makes its pl. أَثْقَال :] and Msb [in which, in my copy, the syn. is written without syll. signs:] and K [in which it is written ثِقَل :]) pl. أَوْزَارٌ . (Msb, K.) ― -b2- (tropical:) A weapon; an instrument of war: or weapons; arms: syn. سِلَاحٌ : (S, Mgh, Msb, K:) because heavy upon the wearer: (Mgh, Msb:) or أَوْزَارٌ signifies the burdens and instruments of war, &c.; and the sing. is وِزْرٌ ; (A 'Obeyd, TA;) or it has no sing., accord. to some. (TA.) A poet says, (S,) namely El-Aashà, (Mgh, TA.) وَأَعْدَدْتُ لِلْحَرْبِ أَوْزَارَهَا رِمَاحًا طِوَالًا وَخَيْلًا ذُكُورَا [And I prepared for the war its weapons and other apparatus; long lances and male horses]. (S, Mgh, TA.) And it is said in the Kur, [xlvii. 5,] حَيَّى تَضَعَ ا@لْحَرْبُ أَوْزَارَهَا , meaning, (tropical:) Until the war terminates: (Mgh, Msb:) because then the people thereof lay down their arms: (Mgh:) properly, until the people of the war lay down their burdens: (Msb:) their weapons and burdens: or, as some say, their sins. (Bd.) ― -b3- (tropical:) A sin: (S, Bd, ubi supra, and Msb, K:) and [especially] polytheism: (Fr, Bd, TA:) pl. as above. (Bd, Msb, &c.) This is the sense in which it is most frequently used in the traditions. (IAth.)

وَزَرٌ A mountain: this is the primary signification: (S:) or a mountain difficult of access, or strong: (K, TK:) or a mountain to which one betakes himself for refuge: this is the primary signification. (Aboo-Is-hák.) ― -b2- A place of refuge: (S, Msb, K:) any such place. (Aboo-Is-hák, K.) So in the Kur, lxxv. 11. (TA.) ― -b3- See also وَزِيرٌ .

وَزِيرٌ i. q. مُوَازِرٌ [One who bears a burden or burdens with another: or one who aids, assists or helps, and strengthens, another: see 3:] (S, A, K:) like as أَكِيلٌ signifies i. q. مُوءَاكِلٌ , (S,) and جَلِيسٌ i. q. مُجَالِسٌ . (A.) ― -b2- (tropical:) [A vicegerent of a king or the like: or a confidential minister of state: in English commonly written vizier, in imitation of the Turkish pronunciation; but properly, wezeer:] the familiar of the king, who bears his master's burden, and aids him by his counsel: (K:) or the وزير of the king is the person who bears with him ( يُوَازِرُهُ , i. e. يُحَامِلُهُ ,) the burdens of the regal office: not from مُوَازَرَةٌ , signifying the “ act of aiding or the like, ” because the و in this latter word is substituted for ء , and the derivative from it of the measure فَعِيلٌ is أَزِيرٌ : (A:) ISd says, some hold that the و in وزير is substituted for ء ; but Abu-l-'Abbás says, that this is not agreeable with analogy; for the substitution of ء for و in a word of this measure is rare, and that of و for ء is more strange: (TA:) the وزير is so called because he bears for the king the burden of administration: (S, * Msb:) or it is from ↓ وَزَرٌ , signifying “ a mountain to which one has recourse to save himself from destruction: ” so the وزير of the khaleefeh is one upon whose counsel the khaleefeh relies in his affairs, and to whom he betakes himself for refuge or safety: (Aboo-Is-hák, TA:) pl. وُزَرَا=ءُ (A, Msb, K) and أَوْزَارٌ ; (A, K;) the latter like أَشْرَافٌ and أَيْتَامٌ , (A, TA,) pls. of شَرِيفٌ and يَتِيمٌ . (TA.)

وِزَارَةٌ and وَزَارَةٌ The condition, or office, of a وَزِير : (S, Msb, K:) the former word is the more approved. (ISk, Msb.)

وَازِرٌ Bearing, or carrying, a heavy load, or burden. (A.) ― -b2- [Hence,] also, (A,) and ↓ مَوْزُورٌ , (S, A, Msb, K,) (tropical:) Sinning: (S, A, K:) or bearing [a burden of] sin. (Msb.) مَأْزُورَاتٍ occurs in a trad., for مَوْزُورَاتٍ , the regular form, because it is there coupled with مَأْجُورَاتٍ , to which it is opposed. (S, Mgh, Msb, K.)

مَوْزُورٌ : see وَازِرٌ .