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noun, masculine

hanout

/a.nut/

noun, masculine/a.nut/plural: haouanet

hanout is masculine in French.

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).