noun, masculine/a.nut/plural: haouanet
sepulchral chamber in a rock mass, hypogeum; shop, store
“Il est bientôt minuit, les frérots ont soif Dix balles d'essence, on passe chez l’hanout Se recharger en clopes, feuilles, Poliakov La soirée sera un cocktail Molotov.” — It's midnight soon, the bros are thirsty Ten euros piss, we pass by the milk bar, To refill on blems, papers, Poliakov The evening’s gonna be a Molotov cocktail.
Synonyms: hypogée, tombe rupestre
Borrowed from Arabic حَانُوت (ḥānūt) and its plural حَوَانِيت (ḥawānīt). From Maghrebi Arabic in its “shop” slang sense, itself from Hebrew חָנוּת (ḥānūṯ) and Aramaic חָנוּתָא/ܚܳܢܽܘܬܴܐ (ḥānūṯā).