visír

See also: visir and vísir

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from English vizier, from Ottoman Turkish وزیر (vezir), from Arabic وَزِير (wazīr, “helper, aide, minister”).

Noun

visír m (genitive singular visír, nominative plural visírí)

1. vizier

Declension

Declension of visír (fourth declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative visír visírí vocative a visír a visírí genitive visír visírí dative visír visírí forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an visír na visírí genitive an visír na visírí dative leis an visír don visír leis na visírí

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “visír”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN