صو ترازوسی
Ottoman Turkish
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صو ترازوسی
Etymology
From صو (su, “water”) + ترازو (terazi, “scales, balance”).
Noun
صو ترازوسی • (su terazisi)
- water-balance, a stone obelisk bearing a basin on its summit into which the water rises, with the purpose of aereating the water and securing its division into branch channels
Descendants
- Turkish: su terazisi
Further reading
- 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, Constantinople: Mihran, page 358
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “صو ترازوسی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 525