magasin – French noun declension

French noun forms of magasin

Noun: magasin
Gender: m Hyphenation:
Singular mmagasin
Plural mmagasins

Sample Sentences

  • Near-synonym: boutique
  • comme un éléphant dans un magasin de porcelaine (like a bull in a china shop)
  • faire les magasins (to go shopping)
  • grand magasin (department store)
  • magasin d'usine (outlet)

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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