صو ترازوسی
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Ottoman Turkish[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
From صو (su, “water”) + ترازو (terazi, “scales, balance”).
Noun[edit]
- water-balance, a stone obelisk bearing a basin on its summit into which the water rises, with the purpose of aerating the water and securing its division into branch channels
Descendants[edit]
- Turkish: su terazisi
Further reading[edit]
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “su terazisi”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4340
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صو ترازوسی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 358
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صو ترازوسی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 525