وزنه

See also: وزنة

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic وَزْنَة (wazna, “a ponderable contrivance”).

Noun

وزنه • (vezne)

1. kind of balance or gauge used for testing coins
2. (by extension) office where money is weighed and tested
3. large and half-globular copper pan used in cooking
4. powder flask, a small flask for carrying gunpowder
5. flash pan, a small receptacle for priming powder

Derived terms

• وزنه‌جی (vezneci, “tester of coins”)
• وزنه‌دار (veznedar, “tester of coins”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: vezne
• → Albanian: vezme
• → Armenian: վէզնէ (vēznē)
• → Aromanian: vizne, vizine, zivine
• → Bulgarian: везни́ (vezní), везна́ (vezná)
• → Georgian: ვაზნა (vazna)
• → Greek: βεζινές (vezinés), βεζενές (vezenés)
• → Romanian: vizinea, viznea, veznea

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “vezne1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5116
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “vezne”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1382
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “وزنه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1309
• 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^[3], Vienna, column 947
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “وزنه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 5368
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “وزنه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2136