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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic وَزْنَة (wazna, “a ponderable contrivance”).
Noun
وزنه • (vezne)
- kind of balance or gauge used for testing coins
- (by extension) office where money is weighed and tested
- large and half-globular copper pan used in cooking
- powder flask, a small flask for carrying gunpowder
- flash pan, a small receptacle for priming powder
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Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “vezne1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5116
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “vezne”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1382
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “وزنه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1309
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Libra”, 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, Vienna, column 947
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “وزنه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 5368
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “وزنه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2136