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وزن

1 وَزَنَ ذ It (a thing) was heavy: (Msb:) or outweighed, or preponderated; syn. وَجَحَ. (TA.) 3 هٰذَا يُوَازِنُ هٰذَا ذ This is equiponderant to this. (S.) 8 اِتَّزَنَهُ ذ He took it, or received it, by weight. (S, * Mgh, Msb, K. *) See an ex. voce سَنْجَةٌ. الوَزْنُ ذ A certain star in the left fore leg of Centaurus. (Kzw.) See حَضَارِ. زِنِىٌّ ذ , rel. n. of زِنَةٌ. (S, art. وعد, q. v., voce عِدَةٌ.) وَازِنٌ ذ : see رَاجِحٌ: heavy: (Msb:) or of full weight: (KL:) pl. وُزَّنٌ: see زَالٌّ. You say, دِرْهَمٌ وَازِنٌ (S) A full, or complete, dirhem: (so in a copy of the S:) [a dirhem of full weight: a heavy dirhem. (PS.) وَزَّانٌ ذ A weigher. (TA, in art. قسط.) مِيزَانٌ ذ A weighing-instrument; (TA:) a balance; a pair of scales. ― -b2- The weight of a thing. (K, &c.) See مِثْقَالٌ.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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