ترازو
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ترازو
See also: تزارو
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Persian ترازو (tarâzu, “balance, scales”).
Noun
ترازو • (tarazu or terazi)
- balance, pair of scales, a device for measuring weight
- Synonym: میزان (mizan)
- (by extension) any weighing or measuring apparatus
- (astronomy) Libra, a constellation of the Zodiac
- Synonym: میزان (mizan)
- (astrology) Libra, the zodiac sign for the scales
- Synonym: میزان (mizan)
- (figuratively) balance, equality, equilibrium, stability
Derived terms
- ترازو شاهینی (terazi şahini, “tongue of a balance”)
- ترازوسز (terazisiz, “without balance, unequal”)
- ترازولو (terazili, “well-balanced, equal”)
- صو ترازوسی (su terazisi, “water-balance”)
- صیجاق ترازوسی (sıcak terazisi, “thermometer”)
- هوا ترازوسی (hava terazisi, “barometer”)
Descendants
- Turkish: terazi
- → Armenian: թերազի (tʻerazi), թա̈րա̈զո̈ւ (tʻäräzü)
- → Macedonian: терезија (terezija)
- → Middle Armenian: թէրազու (tʻērazu)
- → Serbo-Croatian: terazije
- → Albanian: terezi
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “terazi2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4747
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ترازو”, in Dictionnaire turc-français (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 358
- 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) “ترازو”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 1136
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “terazi”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ترازو”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 525
Persian
Etymology
From Middle Persian (tlʾcwk' /tarāzūg/, “balance, scales”) (compare Parthian 𐫤𐫓𐫀𐫉𐫇𐫃 (tlʾzwg /talāzūg/)), borrowed from Avestan 𐬙𐬀𐬭𐬀.𐬀𐬰𐬎 (tara.azu). Compare Sanskrit तुला (tulā). Akin to the Iranian borrowings: Old Armenian տարազուկ (tarazuk), Udi таьраьзуькӏ (täräzüḳ).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): /ta.ɾaː.ˈzuː/
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key):
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key):
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | tarāzū |
| Dari reading? | tarāzū |
| Iranian reading? | tarâzu |
| Tajik reading? | tarozu |
Noun
| Dari | ترازو |
|---|---|
| Iranian Persian | |
| Tajik | тарозу |
ترازو • (tarâzu)
- balance, scales
- Synonym: (dated) میزان (mizân)
- c. 1260, Rumi, “4:634”, in The Masnavi:
- اندر آن کفهی ترازو ز اعتداد، او به جای سنگ آن گل را نهاد.
- andar ân kaffe-ye tarâzu z-e'tedâd, u be jâ-ye sang ân gel-râ nehâd.
- He placed the clay, because of its being ready , in one scale of the balance instead of the weight.
- (figurative) equilibrium, balance
Descendants
- → Azerbaijani: tərəzi
- → Chagatai: ترازو (tarāzū)
- → Bengali: তরাজূ (tôrazū)
- → Chechen: терза (terza)
- → Chuvash: тараса (taras̬a)
- → Crimean Tatar: teraze
- → Georgian: თარაზო (tarazo)
- → Gujarati: ત્રાજવું (trājvũ)
- → Hindustani:
- → Ingush: тараз (taraz)
- → Khmer: ត្រាជូ (traacuu)
- → Kumyk: терезе (tereze)
- → Kurdish:
- → Classical Malay: تراجو (teraju)
- → Marathi: तराजू (tarājū)
- → Nepali: तराजु (tarāju)
- → Odia: ତରାଜୁ (tarāju)
- → Old Javanese: taraju, traju
- → Ottoman Turkish: ترازو (terazu)
- → Telugu: తరాజు (tarāju)
- → Thai: ตราชู (dtraa-chuu)
- → Ukrainian: терези (terezy)
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian ترازو (tarāzū).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /t̪ə.ɾɑː.zuː/
Noun
ترازو • (tarāzū) m (Hindi spelling तराज़ू)
Synonyms
- تلا (tulā)