موازنه

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مُوَازَنَة (muwāzana, “balancing; equilibrium”), verbal noun of وَازَنَ (wāzana, “to balance, counterbalance, be equal in weight”).

Noun

موازنه • (muvâzene) (definite accusative موازنه‌یی (muvâzeneyi), plural موازنه‌لر (muvâzeneler))

1. equilibrium, balance, poise, stability, a state or condition of a system in which opposing forces harmonise

   Synonyms: اعتدال (i’tidâl), دنك (denk)

2. balancing, counterbalancing, equilibration, an action wherein someone balances or something is balanced
3. (accounting) balance, the difference between the debit entries and the credit entries entered into an account

Derived terms

• موازنه اجمالیه (muvâzene-i icmâliye, “short budget”)
• موازنه ایتمك (muvâzene etmek, “to balance”)
• موازنه دفتری (muvâzene defteri, “balance sheet”)
• موازنه دولیه (muvâzene-i düveliye, “international balance”)
• موازنه عمومیه (muvâzene-i ʼumumiye, “general budget”)
• موازنه مالیه (muvâzene-i mâliye, “balance sheet”)
• موازنه‌لی (muvâzeneli, “balanced”)

Descendants

• Turkish: muvazene

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “موازنه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 793
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “muvazene”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3332
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “muvâzene”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 832
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “موازنه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1240
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Æquilibrium”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 34
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “موازنة”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 4999
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “muvazene”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “موازنه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], 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