magazine
English Edit
Etymology Edit
Borrowed from Middle French magasin (“warehouse, store”), from Italian magazzino (“storehouse”), ultimately from Arabic مَخَازِن pl (maḵāzin), plural of مَخْزَن (maḵzan, “storeroom, storehouse”), noun of place from خَزَنَ (ḵazana, “to store, to stock, to lay up”).
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
magazine (plural magazines)
- A non-academic periodical publication, generally consisting of sheets of paper folded in half and stapled at the fold.
- (military) An ammunition storehouse.
- 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […]”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, pages 76–7, lines 293–8:
- He all thir Ammunition / And feats of War defeats / With plain Heroic magnitude of mind / And celeſtial vigour arm’d, / Thir Armories and Magazins contemns, / Renders them uſeleſs, while / With winged expedition / Swift as the lightning glance he executes / His errand on the wicked, who ſurpris’d / Loſe thir defence diſtracted and amaz’d.
- (nautical) The portion of a warship where munitions are stored.
- The cruiser blew up when a shell hit its magazine.
- 2021 March 10, Drachinifel, 28:10 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - The Big Night Battle: Night 1 (IJN 3(?) : 2 USN)[1], archived from the original on 7 November 2022:
- Juneau was making good time with the other surviving U.S. Navy ships, despite her damage, when the I-26 spotted her and sent a salvo of Type 95 torpedoes in her direction. Passing between the Helena and San Francisco, some indication being they had actually been shot at the San Francisco and gone long because San Francisco was travelling significantly slower than expected, they nonetheless hit Juneau and detonated the ship's magazine.
- A chamber in or attachable to a firearm enabling multiple rounds of ammunition to be fed into the firearm.
- A reservoir or supply chamber for a stove, battery, camera, typesetting machine, or other apparatus.
- (archaic) A country or district especially rich in natural products.
- (archaic) A city viewed as a marketing center.
- (archaic) A store, or shop, where goods are kept for sale.
- (television, UK, Ireland) A collection of Teletext pages.
- 1983, Channels of Communications, volume 3, page 41:
- Most teletext "magazines" contain about 100 pages of information, typically including news headlines, weather reports, sports scores, video games, and stock prices.
- 1984, Telecommunications, volume 18, page 89:
- The operator is able to build Teletext magazines of, typically, 100 pages per magazine, specify transmission times […]
Derived terms Edit
Descendants Edit
- → Burmese: မဂ္ဂဇင်း (magga.jang:)
- → Cebuano: magasin
- → Dutch: magazine
- → French: magazine
- → Portuguese: magazine
- → Italian: magazine
- → Gujarati: મેગેઝિન (megejhin)
- → Hebrew: מגזין (magazin)
- → Hindustani: मैगज़ीन (maigzīn) / میگزین (megzīn)
- → Japanese: マガジン (magajin)
- → Shan: မႅၵ်ႈၵၸိၼ်း (mēk kǎ tsín)
- → Spanish: magacín
- → Turkish: magazin
- → Malay: magazin
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Dutch Edit
Etymology Edit
Borrowed from English magazine. The neuter gender is due to magazijn.
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
magazine n (plural magazines)
- magazine (periodical publication)
French Edit
Etymology Edit
Borrowed from English magazine, from Middle French magasin (“warehouse, store”), from Italian magazzino (“storehouse”), ultimately from Arabic مَخَازِن pl (maḵāzin), plural of مَخْزَن (maḵzan, “storeroom, storehouse”), noun of place from خَزَنَ (ḵazana, “to store, to stock, to lay up”). Doublet of magasin.
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
magazine m (plural magazines)
- magazine (periodical publication)
- Synonyms: revue, périodique
Further reading Edit
- “magazine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian Edit
Etymology Edit
Borrowed from English magazine, from Middle French magasin, from Italian magazzino.
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
magazine m (plural magazines)
References Edit
- ^ magazine in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Further reading Edit
- magazine in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Portuguese Edit
Noun Edit
magazine m (plural magazines)
- department store (store containing many departments)
- Synonym: loja de departamento
Romanian Edit
Noun Edit
magazine n pl