valanza
Sicilian edit
Etymology edit
From a Vulgar Latin variant of Latin bilanx. Compare Italian bilancia.
Noun edit
valanza f (plural valanzi)
- balance, scales (device for weighing)
- La valanza nun canusci diffirenzi tra l'oru e lu chiummu.
- The scales don't differentiate gold from lead.
- (fishing) a type of fishing net. (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)
References edit
- Traina, Antonino (1868) “valanza”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 4454
Further reading edit
• (sense 2): 
rete a bilancia on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it