magasin.
shop, store
Meaning & usage
shop, store
comme un éléphant dans un magasin de porcelaine
faire les magasins
warehouse, storehouse
magazine (repository of armaments)
magazine (part of a weapon)
barn
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Arabic خَزَنَ (ḵazana)der. Arabic مَخْزَن (maḵzan) Arabic مَخَازِن (maḵāzin)bor. Italian magazzinobor.? Old French maguesin French magasin Inherited from Old French maguesin (“storeroom, storehouse”), either from a regional language (compare Medieval Latin magazenum as found in a contract allowing Marseillais merchants to build storehouses in ports of the Maghreb) or from Italian magazzino, from Arabic مَخَازِن (maḵāzin), plural of مَخْزَن (maḵzan, “storeroom, storehouse”), from خَزَنَ (ḵazana, “to store, to stock, to lay up”). First attested in 1389. Doublet of magazine.
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