مخزن

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Arabic

Etymology

Noun of place from خَزَنَ (ḵazana, to store), from the root خ ز ن (ḵ-z-n). Compare Hebrew מחסן.

Pronunciation

Noun

مَخْزَن (maḵzanm (plural مَخَازِن (maḵāzin))

  1. storeroom, storehouse
  2. depository
  3. stockroom, storage room
  4. depot, warehouse
  5. store, shop, department store

Declension

Descendants

See also

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَخْزَن (maḵzan, storehouse, depot, warehouse). Doublet of مغازه (mağaza, store room).

Noun

مخزن (mahzen) (plural مخازن (mahazin))

  1. storehouse, magazine, a building for keeping goods of any kind, especially provisions
    Synonym: انبار (anbar)
  2. (agriculture) granary, a storage facility for grain or, sometimes, animal feed
    Synonym: انبار (anbar)

Derived terms

Descendants

Further reading

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَخْزَن (maḵzan). Doublet of مغازه (mağâze).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? maxzan
Dari reading? maxzan
Iranian reading? maxzan
Tajik reading? maxzan

Noun

Dari مخزن
Iranian Persian
Tajik махзан

مخزن (maxzan) (plural مخزن‌ها (maxzan-hâ) or مخازن (maxâzen))

  1. storehouse, warehouse, repository
    • c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 187:
      زر نه مخزن افلاک همه داغ غمست
      قصر زر با دگران دیر مغان ما را بس
      zar na maxzan-i aflāk hama dāğ-i ğam ast
      qasr-i zar bā digarān dayr-i muğān mā rā bas
      All the treasury of the heavens is the scar of grief, not gold;
      The palace of gold for the others! The convent of the Magians is enough for me.
      (Classical Persian transliteration)

Further reading

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian مخزن (maxzan), from Arabic مَخْزَن (maḵzan).

Pronunciation

Noun

مَخْزَن (maxzanm (Hindi spelling मख़ज़न)

  1. a repository
  2. warehouse; granary; armoury
  3. a thesaurus
  4. a periodical; magazine
  5. stomach (the crop of a bird)

Declension

    Declension of مخزن
singular plural
direct مَخْزَن (maxzan) مَخْزَن (maxzan)
oblique مَخْزَن (maxzan) مَخْزَنوں (maxzanõ)
vocative مَخْزَن (maxzan) مَخْزَنو (maxzano)

Further reading

  • مخزن”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • مخزن”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “مخزن”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.