Translation
illustrated periodical, glossy magazine
Word origin
From English magazine in its publishing sense, and so from the same Arabic makhzan, a storehouse, that gave Esperanto magazeno. The eighteenth-century periodicals took the name deliberately: a magazine was advertised as a storehouse of useful knowledge.
- Origin
- Arabic, via English
- Root
- مخزن (makhzan)
- English cognates
- magazine, magasin
Examples
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She bought a magazine at the station.
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The article appeared in a big magazine.
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That magazine publishes a new issue every month.
This closes a pair that has been open since rank 1625. A is a magazine in the reading sense, the illustrated periodical you buy at a station. A is a department store or a warehouse. One letter apart, same Arabic ancestor, entirely different objects.
The reason they diverged is worth a sentence. Makhzan means storehouse; French took it as magasin and kept the shop; English took it, applied it to a store of gunpowder and then to a store of articles, and ended up with the periodical. Esperanto, characteristically, borrowed both results and spelled them differently.
Which leaves three words for a publication and a decision to make. (rank 388) is the general one and the safe default, leans towards the daily newspaper, towards the serious review, and towards the glossy illustrated thing. French magasin meaning shop is the trap that catches English speakers going the other way: see Falsaj amikoj.
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