[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886) › c10.15765 # Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.15765 Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.15765 - **Language:** English ### [c10.15765](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.15765) \*\*VIZIER, WUZEER\*\*, s. Ar.—H. \*wazir\*, ‘a minister,’ and usually the principal minister, under a (Mahomedan) prince. \[In the Koran (cap. xx. 30) Moses says: “Give a \*wazir\* of my family, Harūn (Aaron) my brother.” In the \*Aīn\* we have a distinction drawn between the \*Vakīl\*, or prime minister, and the \*Vazīr\*, or minister of finance (ed. Blochmann, i. 527).\] In India the Nawāb of Oudh was long known as the Nawāb Wazīr, the founder of the quasi-independent dynasty having been Sa’ādat ’Alī Khān, who became Sūbadār of Oudh, c. 1732, and was also Wazīr of the Empire, a title which became hereditary in his family. The title of Nawāb Wazīr merged in that of \*pādshāh\*, or King, assumed by Ghāzī-ud-dīn Haidar in 1820, and up to his death still borne or claimed by the ex-King Wājid ’Alī Shāh, under surveillance in Calcutta. As most titles degenerate, \*Wazīr\* has in Spain become \*alguazil\*, ‘a constable,’ in Port. \*alvasil\*, ‘an alderman.’ - [Previous: c10.15764](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.15764) - [Next: c10.15766](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.15766) - [Up: c10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.15765](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.15765) · Pramāṇa