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خزن

Root entry · 15 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to storing, preserving, and accumulating wealth or goods. It also extends to concepts of decay, change, and the passage of time, as well as specific roles and places associated with storage.

Derived headwords

خَزَنَverb
  1. 1.
    to store, hoardboth

    To keep something, especially wealth or provisions, for future use.

  2. 2.
    to decay, spoilclassical

    Used for meat, meaning to change or become putrid.

أَحْرَزَverb
  1. 1.
    to preserve, secureboth

    To keep something safe and protected, often implying storage.

اخْتَزَنَverb
  1. 1.
    to store up, hoardboth

    To accumulate and store something, similar to 'خزن'.

خَزْنًاnoun
  1. 1.
    storing, hoardingboth

    The act of storing or hoarding wealth or goods.

  2. 2.
    decay, spoilageclassical

    The state of meat having changed or become putrid.

خُزُونًاnoun
  1. 1.
    decay, spoilageclassical

    The state of meat having changed or become putrid.

خَزِنَverb
  1. 1.
    to decay, spoilclassical

    To change or become putrid, used for meat.

خَزِينadjective
  1. 1.
    decayed, spoiledclassical

    Describing meat that has changed or become putrid.

خَزَّانnoun
  1. 1.
    tongueclassical

    A metonymic term for the tongue.

  2. 2.
    blackened, spoiled fruitclassical

    Refers to moist, blackened fruit that has been affected by a disease or spoilage.

خَازِنnoun
  1. 1.
    treasurer, storekeeperboth

    One who is in charge of storing or managing wealth or goods.

  2. 2.
    tongueclassical

    A metonymic term for the tongue.

مَخْزَنnoun
  1. 1.
    storehouse, warehouseboth

    A place where goods or wealth are stored.

  2. 2.
    heartclassical

    The heart, metaphorically considered a place of storage for emotions or thoughts.

مَخَازِنnoun
  1. 1.
    storehouses, warehousesboth

    Plural of 'مخزن', referring to multiple storage places.

مَخَاصِرnoun
  1. 1.
    loins, flanksclassical

    The sides of the body between the ribs and the hips; also used for the sides of a road.

اخْتَزَنَ طَرِيقًاverb
  1. 1.
    to take the shortest routeclassical

    To choose the most direct or nearest path.

أَخْزَنَverb
  1. 1.
    to become rich after povertyclassical

    To attain wealth after having been poor.

الخَازِنَانname
  1. 1.
    Alī ibn Aḥmad and Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khāzinānclassical

    Two traditionists (muḥaddithūn) named Alī ibn Aḥmad and Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Mūsā, known by the surname al-Khāzinān.

Parallel reading

خزن المال: أحرزه، كاختزنه
To store wealth: to preserve it, like storing it up.
واللحم خزنا وخزونا: تغير
And meat, 'khaznan' and 'khuzūnan': changed (spoiled).
وككتابة: فعل الخازن، ومكان الخزن، ولا يفتح، كالمخزن، كمقعد، والقلب.
And like 'kitābah': the action of the treasurer, and the place of storage, and it is not opened (like 'makzan'), like 'maqʿad', and the heart.
والخزان، كشداد: اللسان، كالخازن، والرطب المسود الجوف لآفة.
And 'al-khazzān', like 'shaddād': the tongue, like 'al-khāzin', and the moist, blackened interior (of fruit) due to a disease.
ومخازن الطريق: مخاصره.
And the sides of the road: its flanks.
واختزن طريقا: أخذ أقربه.
And to take a route: to take its nearest one.
وأخزن: استغنى بعد فقر.
And 'akhzana': to become rich after poverty.
وعلي بن أحمد، وأحمد بن موسى الخازنان: محدثان.
And Alī ibn Aḥmad, and Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khāzinān: were traditionists.