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خَزْنَة

safe (a lockable box or vault for storing money and valuables) /ˈxazna/

nounB2#3437 most common

Also: strongbox, vault

Example sentences

هذه خَزْنَة.
This is a safe.
الخَزْنَة مُقفَلة.
The safe is locked.
وضعتُ المال في الخَزْنَة.
I put the money in the safe.
خَزْنَة المتجر صغيرة لكنها قوية.
The store's safe is small but strong.
يعرف المدير وحده رمز فتح الخَزْنَة السرّي.
Only the manager knows the secret code to open the safe.
بعد أن عجز اللصوص عن كسر الخَزْنَة المصفحة، فرّوا دون أن ينالوا شيئاً.
After the thieves failed to break the armored safe, they fled without taking anything.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativeخَزْنَةٌخَزَنَاتٌ
Genitiveخَزْنَةٍخَزَنَاتٍ
Accusativeخَزْنَةًخَزَنَاتٍ
Vocativeيَا خَزْنَةُيَا خَزَنَاتُ

Word family

خِزَانَةcabinet, wardrobe, closet
مَخْزَنwarehouse, store
خَزِينَةtreasury, exchequer
خَزَّانreservoir, tank
اِخْتَزَنَto store up, hoard

Etymology

خَزْنَة comes from the triliteral Semitic root خ-ز-ن (kh-z-n), meaning to store or hoard. The same root gives خزانة (cabinet), خزينة (treasury), and مخزن (warehouse). مخزن later passed through Italian and French to give English magazine, first meaning a storehouse and later a store of ammunition or a periodical.

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