English Explanatory Dictionary

buzurg

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An honoured elder or superior.

Word forms

buzurg buzurgs

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi बुज़ुर्ग (buzurg), Classical Persian بزرگ (buzurg), from Middle Persian 𐭥𐭰𐭥𐭫𐭢 (wazurg, wuzurg), from Old Persian 𐎺𐏀𐎼𐎣 (vazạrka, “great, large”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *wáȷ́rakas (“endowed with strength”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weǵ-. Doublet of vajra and waker. Further related through the same Indo-European root to vigil, vigor, and vegetable.

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