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/ma.ɡa.zin/

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Translation

magazine (periodical)

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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

Gendermasculine
Pluralmagazines

Examples

buraliste.

I buy this magazine every month at the newsagent's.

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Her article appeared in a scientific magazine.

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There is a pile of old magazines in the waiting room.

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The magazine put the singer on the cover.

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I took out a year's subscription to a cookery magazine.

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This word is taught in chapter 21, lesson 7: magazine, ouai, pratique and 7 more words.