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خَزّان
tank /xazˈzaːn/
nounB1#1756 most common
Also: reservoir, cistern, storage tank
Example sentences
عِنْدَنا خَزّانٌ كَبيرٌ.
We have a big tank.
الخَزّانُ مَملوءٌ بِالماءِ.
The tank is full of water.
صَعِدَ العامِلُ إلى السَّطْحِ لِيُنَظِّفَ الخَزّانَ.
The worker climbed to the roof to clean the tank.
انخَفَضَ مَنْسوبُ المِياهِ في الخَزّانِ بَعْدَ الصَّيْفِ الجافِّ.
The water level in the reservoir dropped after the dry summer.
يُغَذّي الخَزّانُ الواقِعُ خَلْفَ السَّدِّ مَحَطّةَ توليدِ الكَهْرَباءِ.
The reservoir behind the dam feeds the power station.
حَذَّرَ الخُبَراءُ مِن أنَّ تَلَوُّثَ الخَزّاناتِ الجَوْفِيَّةِ قَد يُهَدِّدُ الأمْنَ المائِيَّ لِلبِلادِ لِعُقودٍ.
Experts warned that contamination of the underground reservoirs could threaten the country's water security for decades.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | خَزّانٌ | خَزّاناتٌ |
| Genitive | خَزّانٍ | خَزّاناتٍ |
| Accusative | خَزّاناً | خَزّاناتٍ |
| Vocative | يا خَزّانُ | يا خَزّاناتُ |
Word family
خَزَنَto store, to stockpile
مَخْزَنstorehouse, depotخَزينةtreasury, safe
تَخْزينstorage (the act)
خازِنtreasurer, keeper of stores
Etymology
The word comes from the Semitic root خ-ز-ن, meaning to store or hoard. The faʿʿāl pattern turns the root into a noun for a thing that stores in large amount, hence a tank or reservoir. The same root gives مَخْزَن, a storehouse, which passed through Arabic into European languages as the source of the word magazine.
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