Magazine (artillery)

A magazine is an item or place within which ammunition or other explosive material is stored. The word is taken originally from the Arabic word makhāzin (مخازن), meaning "storehouses", via Italian and Middle French.^[1]^[2]^[3]

The term is also used for an ammunition dump, a place where large quantities of ammunition are stored for later distribution. This usage is less common.

^ "Magazine". Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com, LLC. Retrieved 2018-07-12. Origin of magazine: 1575–85; < French magasin < Italian magazzino storehouse < Arabic makhāzin, plural of makhzan storehouse
^ "magazine". American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (Fifth ed.). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. 2011. Retrieved 2018-07-12. French magasin, storehouse, from Old French magazin (possibly via Old Italian magazzino), from Arabic maḫāzin, pl. of maḫzan, from ḫazana, to store[...]
^ "magazine". Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged (12th ed.). HarperCollins Publishers. 2014. Retrieved 2018-07-12. via French magasin from Italian magazzino, from Arabic makhāzin, plural of makhzan storehouse, from khazana to store away

[Dictionary.com-1] "Magazine". Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com, LLC. Retrieved 2018-07-12. Origin of magazine: 1575–85; < French magasin < Italian magazzino storehouse < Arabic makhāzin, plural of makhzan storehouse

[AmericanHeritage-2] "magazine". American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (Fifth ed.). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. 2011. Retrieved 2018-07-12. French magasin, storehouse, from Old French magazin (possibly via Old Italian magazzino), from Arabic maḫāzin, pl. of maḫzan, from ḫazana, to store[...]

[Collins-3] "magazine". Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged (12th ed.). HarperCollins Publishers. 2014. Retrieved 2018-07-12. via French magasin from Italian magazzino, from Arabic makhāzin, plural of makhzan storehouse, from khazana to store away

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