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/ma.ɡa.zin/
Translation
magazine (periodical)
Word origin
Borrowed back from English magazine, which took the sense 'periodical' from the idea of a storehouse of articles. The word itself is French magasin ('shop, warehouse'), from Italian magazzino, from Arabic makhzan ('storehouse').
- Origin
- Arabic
- Root
- makhzan
- English cognates
- magazine
Grammar
Examples
J' tous buraliste.
I buy this magazine every month at the newsagent's.
paru .
Her article appeared in a scientific magazine.
'.
There is a pile of old magazines in the waiting room.
chanteuse .
The magazine put the singer on the cover.
abonné .
I took out a year's subscription to a cookery magazine.
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