Vol. 09 · Loanwords ·Arabic ·1580s
Magazine
from makhzan
- Meaning
- A storehouse or depot — where goods are kept.
- Source word
- makhzan
- Route into English
- Arabic → Italian *magazzino* → Middle French *magasin* → English. The printed-publication sense (1731) borrowed the metaphor of a storehouse of articles.
- Arrived
- 1580s
From Arabic
Science, trade, and the Mediterranean transit of Andalusian scholarship gave English its Arabic stratum — especially in maths, chemistry, and commerce. Many entered through Latin or Italian.
English borrows.
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