French magasin, storehouse, from Old French magazin (possibly via Old Italian magazzino), from Arabic mahāzin, pl. of mahzan, from hazana, to store, from Aramaic ḥassen,
to possess, hoard, derived stem of ḥəsan, to be strong.
The Gentleman’s Magazine, first published in 1731, in London, is considered to have been the first general-interest magazine. Edward Cave, who edited The Gentleman’s Magazine under
the pen name “Sylvanus Urban”, was the first to use the term “magazine”, on the analogy of a military storehouse of varied materiel, originally derived from the Arabic makazin “storehouses”.
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1583, “place where goods are stored, esp. military ammunition,” from M.Fr. magasin “warehouse, depot, store,” from It. magazzino, from Arabic makhazin, pl. of makhzan “storehouse,” from khazana “to store up.” The original sense is almost obsolete; meaning “periodical journal” dates from the publication of the first one, “Gentleman’s Magazine,” in 1731, from earlier use of the word for a printed list of military stores and information, or in a fig. sense, from the publication being a “storehouse” of information.
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Etymology: Middle French, from Old Occitan, from Arabic makhāzin, plural of makhzan storehouse
Date: 1583
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/magazine
the English word magazine:
derived from the French word magasin
derived from the Italian word magazzino
derived from the Arabic word makhazin
derived from the Arabic word makhzan
derived from the Arabic word khazana
The earliest known usage of magazine in English dates from the 16th century.
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MAGAZINE, primarily a warehouse
for goods or merchandise (Arab. makhzan, a storehouse, from khazana, to store up). In Morocco makhzan (or maghzen) has come to be used as the name of the government. The Spaniards adopted the Arabic in the form magacen, and the English form comes through the older French magazin, modern magasin. The meaning of a storehouse or large shop, common in French, is rare in English except in the military use of the term for a building for the storage of explosives and ammunition. It is applied to the chamber of a repeating rifle or machine-gun containing the supply of cartridges. The name as applied to a periodical publication containing articles on various subjects was first used in the Gentleman’s Magazine (1731), described as “a monthly collection, to treasure up as in a magazine” articles on the subjects with which it was proposed to deal.
http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Magazine
khazana (Hindi) - a warehouse
http://www.khazanajewellery.com/history.asp
http://www.baroda-online.com/ShopTalk/Khazana.html
