wazirEtymologyFrom Pashto وزير (Wëzír).nameA surname.nounVizier.“The Wazir brought him and the King said, "Give him a thousand miskals of gold from the treasury, and load him ten camels with goods for trade, and send him under escort to his own town."”A fairy chess piece that moves one square orthogonally.“Another type of rider is the Mao which is the knight in Chinese chess. It makes its move in two steps, a noncapturing wazir move followed by a fers move, so the cell moved through must be vacant. The Moa (W.Speckman) is a knight that moves as fers followed by wazir.”A member of a tribe of Pashtuns in Waziristan, Pakistan.