steelyard

Etymology
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The sense of “place” is a or  (Modern Dutch  + ).

The sense of “balance” is presumably from the sense of “place”, originally “steelyard beam”, mixed with additional sense of “rod” (hence “rod for weighing steel”), replacing earlier 🇨🇬.

Noun



 * 1) A transportable balance with unequal arm lengths.
 * 2) A place where steel (and possibly other metals as well) is stored and sold.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: قَبَّان, قَرَسْطُون
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: qapan
 * Basque: erromatar balantza, erromana
 * Belarusian: ка́нтар
 * Breton: krog-pouez
 * Bulgarian:, ри́мски канта́р
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Hokkien: 秤仔
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: přezmen
 * Dalmatian: stataira
 * Danish: bismervægt
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: käsipuntari
 * French:
 * German:, römische Schnellwaage
 * Greenlandic: bismeri
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 竿秤
 * Kazakh: безбен
 * Macedonian: кантар
 * Manchu: ᡩᡝᠩᠰᡝ
 * Mongolian:
 * Old English: wǣgpundern
 * Ottoman Turkish: قنطار, قپان
 * Persian:
 * Polish: bezmian, przezmian
 * Russian:, , ка́нтер, ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ка̀нта̄р
 * Roman:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, betsman
 * Tamil:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:, ка́нтар


 * Italian: deposito metalli,