مخزن
“مخزن” (махзан) — a warehouse in Arabic. Noun, level A2. From khazana, "to store": a warehouse is "a storehouse", the same root as the wardrobe. The English "magazine" — "a store" — is a relative: it arrived through French from Arabic. In a live sentence: “المخزن ممتلئ قبل عيد الشتاء” — The warehouse is full before the winter holiday. Written with the characters م, خ, ز, ن. A word from the everyday Arabic course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Arabic | مخزن |
| Read in Latin letters | махзан |
| Translation | a warehouse |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
From khazana, "to store": a warehouse is "a storehouse", the same root as the wardrobe. The English "magazine" — "a store" — is a relative: it arrived through French from Arabic
A word with a story stays in memory longer than one learned as a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.
In a live sentence
A single word almost never appears alone in conversation. A sentence shows where it fits and what stands next to it.
- المخزن ممتلئ قبل عيد الشتاءаль-махзан мумталииʾ габля иид аш-шитааThe warehouse is full before the winter holiday
How not to forget this word
Reading a word and remembering it are different jobs. A day later, little survives of a single reading — and that is not bad memory, that is how memory works.
- This has been tested on foreign words too. The difference shows up most when you test yourself a few days later rather than straight away.checked many timesKim & Webb, 2022, Language Learning 72(2) · 48 experiments, 3,411 participants, 98 comparisons.
- Recalling beats re-reading. Covering the translation and trying to remember it does more than reading it ten more times.checked many timesAdesope, Trevisan & Sundararajan, 2017, Review of Educational Research 87(3) · 188 experiments, 272 comparisons. g = 0.61; against plain re-reading 0.51, against passive review 0.93.
- An answer you worked out yourself sticks better than one handed to you.checked many timesBertsch et al., 2007, Memory & Cognition 35(2) · 86 studies, 445 comparisons, d = 0.40.
Frequently asked
How do you say “a warehouse” in Arabic?
«مخزن», read “махзан”. In a live sentence: “المخزن ممتلئ قبل عيد الشتاء” — The warehouse is full before the winter holiday. Noun, level A2; written with the characters م, خ, ز, ن.
How is “مخزن” written in Latin letters?
махзан. This is a practical spelling — you need it to read aloud and be understood, not to meet an academic standard.
Why does this word look the way it does?
From khazana, "to store": a warehouse is "a storehouse", the same root as the wardrobe. The English "magazine" — "a store" — is a relative: it arrived through French from Arabic. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.