steelyard

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• General-American: /ˈstiːljɑːɹd/
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• General-American: /ˈstiːljɚd/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈstiːljɑːd/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈstiːljəd/
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• obsolete: /ˈstɪljəɹd/
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From steel + yard (“enclosed area, rod”). The sense of “place” is a calque of Dutch staalhof or Middle Low German Stalhof (Modern Dutch staal (“steel”) + hof (“court, yard”)). 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 Latin statēra.

51 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: kandar — steelyard balance
• Arabic: قَبَّان (qabbān) — steelyard balance
• Arabic: قَرَسْطُون (qarasṭūn) — steelyard balance
• Armenian: բեզմեն (bezmen) — steelyard balance
• Azerbaijani: qapan — steelyard balance
• Basque: erromatar balantza — steelyard balance
• Basque: erromana — steelyard balance
• Belarusian: ка́нтар (kántar) — steelyard balance
• Breton: krog-pouez — steelyard balance
• Bulgarian: канта́р (kantár) — steelyard balance
• Bulgarian: ри́мски канта́р (rímski kantár) — steelyard balance
• Catalan: romana — steelyard balance
• Chinese: 秤仔 (chhìn-á) — steelyard balance
• Chinese Mandarin: 桿秤 /杆秤 (gǎnchèng) — steelyard balance
• Czech: přezmen — steelyard balance
• Dalmatian: stataira — steelyard balance
• Danish: bismervægt — steelyard balance
• Dutch: unster — steelyard balance
• Finnish: käsipuntari — steelyard balance
• French: romaine — steelyard balance
• German: Laufgewichtswaage — steelyard balance
• German: römische Schnellwaage — steelyard balance
• Greenlandic: bismeri — steelyard balance
• Italian: stadera — steelyard balance
• Japanese: 竿秤 (saobakari) — steelyard balance
• Kazakh: безбен (bezben) — steelyard balance
• Macedonian: кантар (kantar) — steelyard balance
• Manchu: ᡩᡝᠩᠰᡝ (dengse) — steelyard balance
• Mongolian: дэнс (dens) — steelyard balance
• Old English: wǣgpundern — steelyard balance
• Persian: قپان (qapân) — steelyard balance
• Polish: bezmian — steelyard balance
• Polish: przezmian — steelyard balance
• Russian: безме́н (bezmén) — steelyard balance
• Russian: ка́нта́р (kántár) — steelyard balance
• Russian: ка́нтер (kánter) — steelyard balance
• Russian: канта́рь (kantárʹ) — steelyard balance
• Russian: конта́рь (kontárʹ) — steelyard balance
• Serbo-Croatian: ка̀нта̄р — steelyard balance
• Serbo-Croatian: kàntār — steelyard balance
• Southern Altai: безмен (bezmen) — steelyard balance
• Spanish: romana — steelyard balance
• Swedish: besman — steelyard balance
• Swedish: betsman — steelyard balance
• Turkish: kantar — steelyard balance
• Ottoman Turkish: قنطار (kantar) — steelyard balance
• Ottoman Turkish: قپان (kapan) — steelyard balance
• Ukrainian: бе́змін (bézmin) — steelyard balance
• Ukrainian: ка́нтар (kántar) — steelyard balance
• Italian: deposito metalli — place where steel is stored and sold
• Italian: ferrovecchio — place where steel is stored and sold