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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