# ترازو
## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

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

### Noun

ترازو • (tarazu or terazi)
* balance, pair of scales, a device for measuring weight
    Synonym: میزان (mizan)
* (by extension) any weighing or measuring apparatus
* (astronomy) Libra, a constellation of the Zodiac
    Synonym: میزان (mizan)
* (astrology) Libra, the zodiac sign for the scales
    Synonym: میزان (mizan)
* (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: [ta.ɾɑː.ˈzuː]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [t̪ʰä.ɾɑː.zúː]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [t̪ʰä.ɾɑː.zúː]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [t̪ʰä.ɾɑː.zúː]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [t̪ʰä.ɾɔː.zú]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [t̪ʰæ.ɹɒː.zúː]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [t̪ʰä.ɾɔ.zú]

### Noun

| Dari | ترازو |
| Iranian Persian | ترازو |
| Tajik | тарозу |
ترازو • (tarâzu)
* 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)
* (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: /t̪ə.ɾɑː.zuː/

### Noun

ترازو • (tarāzū) m (Hindi spelling तराज़ू)
* balance
* scales

#### Synonyms

* تلا (tulā)