vizier
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Officialsviziervi‧zier /vəˈzɪə $ -ˈzɪr/ noun [countable] PGOan important government official in some Muslim countries in the pastExamples from the Corpusvizier• It comes from a text on the duties of a vizier and was probably copied from a much earlier document.• A second-rate Egyptologist unearths the diary of Eye, the grand vizier of the boy-king Tut.• After 13 years as a slave, Joseph becomes Pharaoh's vizier.Origin vizier (1500-1600) Turkish vezier, from Arabic wazir