Noun: magasin
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | magasin |
| Plural m | magasins |
Sample Sentences
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Near-synonym: boutique
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comme un éléphant dans un magasin de porcelaine (like a bull in a china shop)
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faire les magasins (to go shopping)
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grand magasin (department store)
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magasin d'usine (outlet)
Nouns inflected like magasin
trichogramme,
wintergreen,
urinoir,
contrespionnage,
aréomètre,
palefroi,
whiskey,
whippin,
tee-shirt,
hypocycloïde,
surrisque,
lanternon,
dissentiment,
phonogramme,
phonographe,
trioxygène,
fétichisme,
synode,
synthé,
modérantisme, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Arabic خَزَنَ (ḵazana)der.
3. Arabic مَخْزَن (maḵzan)
4. Arabic مَخَازِن (maḵāzin)bor.
5. Italian magazzinobor.?
6. Old French maguesin
7. French magasin
8. 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. See: Italian Nouns '
magazzino'.
Verbs referencing "magasin"
Danish Nouns
magasin, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
magasin, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
magasin, Romanian Nouns
magazin, German Nouns
Magazin, Spanish Nouns
magacín, Latin Nouns
magasinus, Spanish Nouns
magasín.
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