صو ترازوسی

Ottoman Turkish

صو ترازوسی

Etymology

From صو (su, “water”) +‎ ترازو (terazi, “scales, balance”).

Noun

صو ترازوسی • (su terazisi)

1. water-balance, a stone obelisk bearing a basin on its summit into which the water rises, with the purpose of aerating 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^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 358
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صو ترازوسی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 525