valanza

== Sicilian == === Alternative forms === vilanza === Etymology === Inherited from Vulgar Latin *bilancia, from Latin bilanx. Compare Italian bilancia. === Noun === valanza f (plural valanzi) balance, scales (device for weighing) (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