موازنه

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic مُوَازَنَة (muwāzana), verbal noun of وَازَنَ (wāzana, “to balance, counterbalance, be equal in weight”).

Noun

موازنه • (muvazene)

1. balancing; counterbalancing
2. equilibrium, balance
3. (accounting) balance
4. measurement

Descendants

• Turkish: muvazene

References

• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “muvâzene”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 832
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “موازنه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2019
• Wehr, Hans (1960) “وزن”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 3rd edition, Ithaca, NY: Otto Harrassowitz