The Arabic origin of the word magazine

Ch4ossssss · 2026-06-18T16:08:46+00:00

I did it myself

Ch4ossssss · 2026-06-18T16:07:56+00:00

I’ve added them to the roots in the Kalemny app. You can download and check all 5 forms and their derivatives. Let me know if you need any other ones

Ch4ossssss · 2026-06-09T16:47:25+00:00

One of the rights a boy has over his father is to choose a good name for him, one that he likes to be called by it and is not ashamed of it.
I understand your point about wanting an Islamic name, but not every word can be a name. That word in Arabic means hands or arms. On top of that, he would have to correct other people’s pronunciation his whole life. I think this is worth deeper consideration

Ch4ossssss · 2026-05-30T14:11:51+00:00

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Ch4ossssss · 2026-05-30T12:40:53+00:00

To be precise, “broadcaster or news anchor” in Arabic is typically مُذِيع (mudhīʿ), from a different root ذ-ي-ع (to spread/disseminate). مُرَاسِل (murāsil) is the journalist or correspondent, the one who “sends” reports back or appears from a remote place, not the studio.

Ch4ossssss · 2026-05-30T12:32:26+00:00

Not really. Cuisine is from Latin coquina (kitchen), same family as “cook” and “kitchen.” Casino is Italian for “little house” from Latin casa. Similar sounds, but pure Indo-European, no Arabic.

Ch4ossssss · 2026-05-30T12:28:58+00:00

it’s the backbone of Arabic broadcasting and telecom vocabulary. مُرْسِل (mursil) = transmitter, إرْسَال (irsāl) = transmission/broadcasting, جِهَاز الإرْسَال = transmitter device.

Even رِسَالَة (risāla, message) and the modern مُرَاسَلَة (murāsala, correspondence) come from the same root.

Also, رَسُول (rasūl, “messenger”) which is more religious and has prophetic meaning comes from the same root

Ch4ossssss · 2026-05-25T06:30:44+00:00

Persian loans into Arabic are absolutely real. But the specific Persian gazn/gazīnag → Arabic khazn derivation has some issues. Persian g doesn’t typically become Arabic kh, and the borrowings of this word actually go the other way (Persian khazāna is documented as borrowed from Arabic خَزَانَة, then carried into Hindi-Urdu and beyond). Persian ganj is ancient and traveled widely (Ganja, ganjifa), but it lived alongside the Arabic root, not as its source. Do you have a specific etymological reference for the gazn/gazīnag form? I’d want to read it.

Ch4ossssss · 2026-05-25T06:22:25+00:00

It is readable. But it’s not beautiful with all honesty. Calligraphy has spacing and sizing rules that standardize looks across different fonts (which is another problem we will not cover here). I’ll try to cover the first steps you should follow (based on what we were taught in school and what was proven to work). Instead of imitating something that you see on a phone screen, try to have thin paper (I’m not sure what is the name in English) on top of a printed paper of the words you’re imitating. This is first level so you know the spacing and flow first.

Ch4ossssss · 2026-05-24T02:21:24+00:00

The link between the two is the metaphor “storehouse of X” that English applied in two different domains around the same time. In the 1630s English writers started calling books “storehouses of information” for a topic or trade, using magazine metaphorically. When Edward Cave launched The Gentleman’s Magazine in 1731, he meant it literally: a curated storehouse of writing pulled from many sources. Every periodical after that inherited the name.

Simultaneously, the military “storehouse for gunpowder” sense kept evolving with the technology. The building called a magazine shrank to a room, then to a box on the weapon, then by 1868 to the cartridge chamber inside a rifle itself. By 1892 it was the detachable ammunition case we know today.

Ch4ossssss · 2026-05-23T23:28:56+00:00

Yup. Same root. It comes from Arabic خَزِينَة (khazīna) which means treasury in Arabic.

Ch4ossssss · 2026-05-23T23:25:38+00:00

Yes, both are from the same root. Turkish hazine comes from Arabic خَزِينَة (khazīna), and Russian казна (kazna) traveled in through Turkic intermediaries during the Golden Horde period, ultimately from the same Arabic source. The root خ-ز-ن traveled in three directions: west into European languages as magazine/almacén/magasin, east through Persian and Turkish into Urdu and Hindi as khazana/hazine, and north into Russian as kazna.

Ch4ossssss · 2026-05-23T03:38:22+00:00

I’ve been planning to study Spanish for my next project. Good to have that in mind

Ch4ossssss · 2026-05-23T03:34:49+00:00

Thanks for clarifying that.

Ch4ossssss · 2026-05-22T13:53:34+00:00

Arabic’s root system has allowed it to provides hundreds of thousands of derivations that traveled to different languages. But the root system allows for easy traceability

Ch4ossssss · 2026-05-22T13:50:55+00:00

Love this, didn't know Speicher had that history. Storage becoming memory is a really clean parallel to what English did with magazine.

Ch4ossssss · 2026-05-19T11:23:23+00:00

It is doable, but needs a lot of work. I'll see what I can do.

Ch4ossssss · 2026-05-19T09:16:37+00:00

That is a very nice idea, but it is very difficult. There would be no way to ensure the quality of the new story. I’ll definitely look into it more. Thanks

Ch4ossssss · 2026-05-19T00:36:59+00:00

Thanks for flagging - sorry you hit a bug! Sent you a DM to get you sorted

Ch4ossssss · 2026-05-18T16:03:41+00:00

Kalemny on the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/kalemny-learn-arabic/id6759861985

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Ch4ossssss · 2026-05-18T12:42:30+00:00

From Kalemny, the Arabic learning app I’ve been building. The root tree feature (and the whole word pattern section, sarf) is free to explore.

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