وزین

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic وَزِين (wazīn, “weighty, considerable”).

Adjective

وزین • (vezin)

1. heavy, weighty, ponderous, having great weight

   Synonyms: آغر (ağır), ثقیل (sekil), گران (giran)

2. (of a judgement) weighed, balanced, well-considered

Further reading

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Ponderosus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[1], Vienna, column 1316
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “وزین”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, column 5369
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “وزین”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2136