An Etymological Dictionary of Astronomy and Astrophysics

English-French-Persian

فرهنگ ریشه‌شناختی اخترشناسی-اخترفیزیک



instrument
  ۱) ساز؛ ۲) سازال  
1) sâz; 2) sâzâl
Fr.: instrument  
  1. An object used for producing music.

  2. A measuring device designed to record the present value of a quantity under observation.

Etymology (EN): From O.Fr. instrument, from L. instrumentem “a tool, apparatus, furniture,” from instruere “to arrange, furnish,” from → in- + struc- (var. s. of struere “to put together”) + -tus p.p. suffix.

Etymology (PE): 1) Sâz “(musical) instrument; apparatus; harness; furniture,” from sâzidan, sâxtan “to build, make, fashion; to adapt, adjust, be fit” (from Mid.Pers. sâxtan, sâz-, Manichean Parthian s’c’dn “to prepare, to form;” Av. sak- “to understand, to mark,” sâcaya- (causative) “to teach”).

  1. Sâzâl, from sâz + -âl, → -al.