valanza

Sicilian

Etymology

From a Vulgar Latin variant of Latin bilanx. Compare Italian bilancia.

Noun

valanza f (plural valanzi)

  1. balance, scales (device for weighing)
    La valanza nun canusci diffirenzi tra l'oru e lu chiummu.
    The scales don't differentiate gold from lead.
  2. (fishing) a type of fishing net. (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)

References
  • Traina, Antonino (1868) “valanza”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 4454

Further reading

• (sense 2): rete a bilancia on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.