almacén
warehouse, storeroom; a large shoplocal donde se guardan mercancías; tienda grande
Comes from Arabic
المَخْزَن
al-makhzan
“the storehouse, the granary”«el depósito, el granero»
Arabic today says
مَخْزَن
makhzan
And it still does
Root
خ ز ن
kh-z-n
The article
Spanish kept the Arabic article al- glued to the word.
The story
The kh was lost and the stressed a closed to e (the Andalusi imāla). The same Arabic word gave French magasin, by way of Italian.La kh se perdió y la a tónica se cerró en e (la imāla andalusí). La misma palabra árabe dio, por el italiano, el francés magasin.
In a sentence
Guarda las cajas en el almacén.
Put the boxes away in the warehouse.
ضَعِ الصَّنَادِيقَ فِي المَخْزَن.
More words from the root خ ز ن
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