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1 treasure house; 2 money-box; 3 vault, safe; 4 treasury, treasury department (of an official agency), any office for the deposit and disbursement of funds; 5 locker, wardrobe, closet; 6 cupboard; 7 library – WehrCowan1979.

While the n. looks as if it were a nominal formation from the vb. ↗ḫazana, Jeffery thinks that »[i]t is fairly obvious that ḫazana is a denom. vb., and the word has been recognized by many Western scholars as a foreign borrowing.« Both Pers ganǧ ‘treasure’ and another etymology (akin to Hbr ḥōsän ʻtreasureʼ) have been discussed, but these are probably not tenable.

Q 6:50, 11:31; 12:55; 17:100; 38:9; 52:37; 63:7 ‘treasury, storehouse’.

▪ ↗ḫazana, ↗ḪZN

▪ Jeffery1938, 122-23: »The verb ḫazana does not occur in the Qurʔān, but besides ḫazānaẗ [sic!] (which occurs, however, only in the pl. form ḫazāʔinᵘ), we find a form ḫāzin ʻone who lays in storeʼ in xv, 22; and ḫazanaẗ ʻkeepersʼ in 39:71, 73; 40:52; 67:8. – It is fairly obvious that ḫazana is a denom. vb., and the word has been recognized by many Western scholars as a foreign borrowing.¹ Its origin, however, is a little more difficult to determine. Hoffmann, ZDMG, xxxii, 760,² suggested that we should find its origin in the [Pers] ganǧ. This ganǧ which BQ defines as zar va-gowharī keh dar zamīn dafn konand, is cognate with Skr gañǧa (= kīša), a ʻtreasuryʼ or ʻjewel roomʼ,³ and has been borrowed through the Aram gnzʔ; Syr [gazzā, from] *ganzā into Ar as ↗kanz. It seems hardly likely that by another line of borrowing, through say Hbr gᵊnāzīm ⁴ or Mand גאזאנא⁵ it has come to form the Ar ḫazānaẗ. – Barth, Etymol. Stud, 51, makes the happier suggestion that it may be connected with the form that is behind the Hbr ḥosän ʻtreasureʼ.«
▪ Cf. ↗ḪZN, ↗ḫazana.

1. Fraenkel in Beitr. Assy, iii, 81; Vollers, ZDMG, 1, 640; Horovitz, Paradies, 5 n. 2. Cf. also his Märtyrer, 250. 3. It is probably a loan-word in Skr. Lagarde, GA, 27, and Arm. Stud, 453, thinks it is an old Median word. 4. Cf. Esth, iii, 9; iv. 7, גנזי המלך. 5. Fraenkel, Beitr. Assy, iii, 181, takes it to be from Aram.

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► ḫizānaẗ al-dawlaẗ, ḫizānaẗ ʕāmmaẗ, n.f., public treasury, exchequer.
► ḫizānaẗ al-ṯalǧ, n.f., icebox, refrigerator.
► ḫizānaẗ al-kutub, n.f., bookcase, library.
► ḫizānaẗ ḫuṣūṣiyyaẗ, n.f., private library.
► ḫizānaẗ al-malābis, n.f., wardrobe, closet, locker.

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