ترازو

See also: تزارو

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian ترازو (tarâzu, “balance, scales”).

Noun

ترازو • (tarazu or terazi)

1. balance, pair of scales, a device for measuring weight

   Synonym: میزان (mizan)

2. (by extension) any weighing or measuring apparatus
3. (astronomy) Libra, a constellation of the Zodiac

   Synonym: میزان (mizan)

4. (astrology) Libra, the zodiac sign for the scales

   Synonym: میزان (mizan)

5. (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)
• → Serbo-Croatian: terazije

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, 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 [Term?] (/⁠tarāzūg⁠/, “scales”) (compare Parthian [script needed] (talāzūg)), borrowed from Avestan 𐬙𐬀𐬭𐬀.𐬀𐬰𐬎 (tara.azu). Compare Sanskrit तुला (tulā).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ta.ɾɑː.ˈzuː]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰä.ɾɑː.zúː]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰä.ɾɑː.zúː]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰä.ɾɑː.zúː]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰä.ɾɔː.zú]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰæ.ɹɒː.zúː]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰä.ɾɔ.zú]

Readings
Classical reading?	tarāzū
Dari reading?	tarāzū
Iranian reading?	tarâzu
Tajik reading?	tarozu

Noun

Dari	ترازو
Iranian Persian
Tajik	тарозу

ترازو • (tarâzu)

1. 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 [to his hand], in one scale of the balance instead of the [proper] weight.

     (adapted from the Reynold A. Nicholson translation)

2. (figurative) equilibrium, balance

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: tərəzi
• → Chagatai: ترازو (tarāzū)
  • Uyghur: تارازا (taraza)
  • Uzbek: tarozi
  • → Kazakh: таразы (tarazy)
• → Bengali: তরাজূ (tôrazū)
• → Chechen: терза (terza)
• → Chuvash: тараса (taras̬a)
• → Crimean Tatar: teraze
• → Georgian: თარაზო (tarazo)
• → Gujarati: ત્રાજવું (trājvũ)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: तराज़ू (tarāzū)

  Urdu: ترازو (tarāzū)

  • → Tamil: தராசு (tarācu)

• → Ingush: тараз (taraz)
• → Khmer: ត្រាជូ (traacuu)
• → Kumyk: терезе (tereze)
• → Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: terazî

  Central Kurdish: تەرازوو (terazû)

• → Classical Malay: تراجو (teraju)
  • Indonesian: teraju
  • Malay: teraju
• → Marathi: तराजू (tarājū)
• → Nepali: तराजु (tarāju)
• → Odia: ତରାଜୁ (tarāju)
• → Old Javanese: taraju, traju
  • > Javanese: ꦠꦿꦗꦸ (traju) (inherited)
• → Ottoman Turkish: ترازو (terazu)
  • Turkish: terazi
  • → Macedonian: терезија (terezija)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: теразије, terazije
• → 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)

1. balance
2. scales

Synonyms

• تلا (tulā)