مخزن

Arabic

Etymology

Noun of place from خَزَنَ (ḵazana, “to store”), from the root خ ز ن (ḵ z n). Compare Hebrew מחסן.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /max.zan/

Noun

مَخْزَن • (maḵzan) m (plural مَخَازِن (maḵāzin))

1. storeroom, storehouse
2. depository
3. stockroom, storage room
4. depot, warehouse
5. store, shop, department store
   • الْمَخْزَن (al-maḵzan, “makhzen, the Moroccan government”)
   • مَخْزَن الْعَفْش (maḵzan al-ʕafš, “trunk (boot) of an automobile”)
   • مَخْزَن أَدْوَيَّة (maḵzan ʔadwayya, “drugstore (chemist’s)”)

Declension

Declension of noun مَخْزَن (maḵzan)

singular	basic singular triptote
	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	مَخْزَن maḵzan	الْمَخْزَن al-maḵzan	مَخْزَن maḵzan
nominative	مَخْزَنٌ maḵzanun	الْمَخْزَنُ al-maḵzanu	مَخْزَنُ maḵzanu
accusative	مَخْزَنًا maḵzanan	الْمَخْزَنَ al-maḵzana	مَخْزَنَ maḵzana
genitive	مَخْزَنٍ maḵzanin	الْمَخْزَنِ al-maḵzani	مَخْزَنِ maḵzani
dual	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	مَخْزَنَيْن maḵzanayn	الْمَخْزَنَيْن al-maḵzanayn	مَخْزَنَيْ maḵzanay
nominative	مَخْزَنَانِ maḵzanāni	الْمَخْزَنَانِ al-maḵzanāni	مَخْزَنَا maḵzanā
accusative	مَخْزَنَيْنِ maḵzanayni	الْمَخْزَنَيْنِ al-maḵzanayni	مَخْزَنَيْ maḵzanay
genitive	مَخْزَنَيْنِ maḵzanayni	الْمَخْزَنَيْنِ al-maḵzanayni	مَخْزَنَيْ maḵzanay
plural	basic broken plural diptote
	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	مَخَازِن maḵāzin	الْمَخَازِن al-maḵāzin	مَخَازِن maḵāzin
nominative	مَخَازِنُ maḵāzinu	الْمَخَازِنُ al-maḵāzinu	مَخَازِنُ maḵāzinu
accusative	مَخَازِنَ maḵāzina	الْمَخَازِنَ al-maḵāzina	مَخَازِنَ maḵāzina
genitive	مَخَازِنَ maḵāzina	الْمَخَازِنِ al-maḵāzini	مَخَازِنِ maḵāzini

Descendants

• Andalusian Arabic: مَخْزَن (maḵzan, al-maḵzan), مَخَازِن (maḵāzin, plural)
  • → Catalan: magatzem
  • → Aragonese: (al)magazén
  • → Portuguese: armazém
  • → Ladino: magazen
  • → Spanish: almacén
    • → Guaraní: almasẽ
• Maltese: maħżen
• → Italian: magazzino (via plural form مَخَازِن (maḵāzin)) (see there for further descendants)
• → Ottoman Turkish: مخزن (mahzen)
  • → Turkish: mahzen

See also

• خَزَنَ (ḵazana)

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَخْزَن (maḵzan, “storehouse, depot, warehouse”). Doublet of مغازه (mağaza, “store room”).

Noun

مخزن • (mahzen) (definite accusative مخزنی (mahzeni), plural مخازن (mahâzin))

1. storehouse, magazine, a building for keeping goods of any kind, especially provisions

   Synonym: انبار (anbar)

2. (agriculture) granary, garner, a storage facility for grain or, sometimes, animal feed

   Synonym: انبار (anbar)

Derived terms

• باروت مخزنی (barut mahzeni, “gunpowder magazine”)
• بوغدای مخزنی (buğday mahzeni, “granary”)
• قورشونلو مخزن (kurşunlu mahzen, “name of a warehouse in Galata”)

Descendants

• Turkish: mahzen
• → Armenian: մախսէն (maxsēn), մախսան (maxsan)

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “مخزن”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 744
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “mahzen2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3023
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “mahzen”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 683
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مخزن”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1136
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Horreum”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 706
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مخزن”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 4484
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “mahzen”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مخزن”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1777

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَخْزَن (maḵzan). Doublet of مغازه (mağâze).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [max.ˈzan]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mäx.zǽn]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mäx.zǽn]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [mäx.zǽn]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [mäx.zǽn]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [mæx.zǽn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [mäχ.zǽn]

Readings
Classical reading?	maxzan
Dari reading?	maxzan
Iranian reading?	maxzan
Tajik reading?	maxzan

Noun

Dari	مخزن
Iranian Persian
Tajik	махзан

مخزن • (maxzan) (plural مخزن‌ها (maxzan-hâ) or مخازن (maxâzen))

1. storehouse, warehouse, repository
   • c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 187:

     زر نه مخزن افلاک همه داغ غمست
     قصر زر با دگران دیر مغان ما را بس

     zar na maxzan-i aflāk hama dāğ-i ğam ast
     qasr-i zar bā digarān dayr-i muğān mā rā bas

     All the treasury of the heavens is the scar of grief, not gold;
     The palace of gold for the others! The convent of the Magians is enough for me.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

Further reading

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “مخزن”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “مخزن”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian مخزن (maxzan), from Arabic مَخْزَن (maḵzan).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /məx.zən/
• Rhymes: -ən
• Hyphenation: مَخ‧زَن

Noun

مَخْزَن • (maxzan) m (Hindi spelling मख़ज़न)

1. a repository
2. warehouse; granary; armoury
3. a thesaurus
4. a periodical; magazine
5. stomach (the crop of a bird)

Declension

Declension of مخزن

	singular	plural
direct	مَخْزَن (maxzan)	مَخْزَن (maxzan)
oblique	مَخْزَن (maxzan)	مَخْزَنوں (maxzanõ)
vocative	مَخْزَن (maxzan)	مَخْزَنو (maxzano)

Further reading

• “مخزن”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “مخزن”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “مخزن”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.