hazna

• hasna — dated

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish خزینه (hazine), from Classical Persian خَزِینَه (xazīna), from Arabic خَزِينَة (ḵazīna).

• IPA^(key): /hazˈna/
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: haz‧na

hazna f (plural haznale)

1. cesspool
   • 1958, Gheorghe Ionescu-Sisești, Irimie Staicu, Agrotehnica, volume 1, Bucharest: Agrosilvicultural State House, page 766:

     Haznalele umplute se golesc și conținutul lor se usucă. […] Este bine ca amestecul de fecale și materie organică, după ce se scoate din hazna, să se ducă în locuri depărtate de locuințe […]

     The full cesspools are emptied and their contents are dried. […] It is preferable that the mixture of feces and organic matter, after being taken out of the cesspool, be taken to places far away from any dwellings […]

2. (obsolete) treasury
3. (obsolete) cistern
4. (obsolete) drinking fountain, water pump

• “hazna”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025

From Ottoman Turkish خزینه (hazîne), from Persian خزینه (xazine), from Arabic خزينة (“treasury”).

• IPA^(key): /xâzna/
• Hyphenation: haz‧na

hȁzna f (Cyrillic spelling ха̏зна)

1. (regional) treasury
2. (regional) cash