bazaar

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bazaar

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Alternative forms

• bazar (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle French bazar or Italian bazar, from Ottoman Turkish بازار (bazar), from Persian بازار (bâzâr).

Pronunciation

• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /bəˈzɐː/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /bəˈzɑː(ɹ)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /bəˈzɑɹ/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
• Homophone: bizarre (weak vowel merger)

Noun

bazaar (plural bazaars)

1. A marketplace, particularly in the Middle East and South Asia, and often covered with shops and stalls.
2. A shop selling articles that are either exotic or eclectic.
3. A fair or temporary market, often for charity.
   • 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], “(please specify the page)”, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 129–130:

     ...quoting a paragraph from the Morning Post which announced the intention of Lady Anne Granard, with her beautiful daughters, to preside at one of the stalls, at a grand fancy bazaar, in Kemp Town, which was expected to be the gayest scene and the most splendid assemblage of royalty and nobility ever beheld in Brighton.

Derived terms

• bazaarlike
• cyberbazaar
• ski bazaar
• superbazaar

 

Translations

marketplace

Abkhaz: аџьармыкьа (adžarməkʲʼa) Albanian: treg (sq) m, pazar (sq) m Arabic: سُوق (ar) m or f (sūq), بَازَار (ar) m (bāzār) Armenian: շուկա (hy) (šuka) Assamese: বজাৰ (bozar) Azerbaijani: bazar (az) Bashkir: баҙар (baźar) Belarusian: ры́нак m (rýnak), база́р m (bazár) Bengali: বাজার (bn) (bajar) Bulgarian: паза́р (bg) m (pazár) Burmese: ဈေး (my) (jhe:) Catalan: basar (ca) Chechen: базар (bazar) Chinese: Dungan: базар (bazar) Hokkien: 巴剎／巴刹 (pa-sat), 市場／市场 (zh-min-nan) (chhī-tiûⁿ) Mandarin: 市場／市场 (zh) (shìchǎng), 巴扎 (zh) (bāzhā), 巴剎／巴刹 (zh) (bāshā), 八雜／八杂 (bāzá), 街市 (zh) (jiēshì), 集市 (zh) (jíshì) Chuvash: пасар (pas̬ar) Cornish: basar m Crimean Tatar: bazar Czech: tržiště (cs) n, tržnice (cs) f, trh (cs) m Danish: basar (da) Dongxiang: baza Dutch: bazaar (nl) m Erzya: вацяр (vaćar) Esperanto: budaro Estonian: turg Faroese: basarur m, basárur m Finnish: basaari (fi) French: bazar (fr) m, foire (fr) f, marché (fr) m Georgian: ბაზარი (ka) (bazari) German: Basar (de) m, Markt (de) m Greek: παζάρι (el) n (pazári), αγορά (el) f (agorá) Ancient: ἀγορά f (agorá), λαύρα m (laúra) Greenlandic: basaari Hajong: বাজাৰ (bajar) Hebrew: באזאר m (bazar) Hindi: बाज़ार (hi) m (bāzār), बाजार (hi) m (bājār), बजार (hi) m (bajār) Hungarian: bazár (hu), piac (hu) Icelandic: basar m, markaður (is) m, torg (is) n Indonesian: pasar (id) Italian: bazar (it) m, mercato (it) m Japanese: バザール (ja) (bazāru), バザー (ja) (bazā), 市場 (ja) (いちば, ichiba) Javanese: pasar (jv) Kalmyk: базр (bazr) Kannada: ಬಜಾರ್ (kn) (bajār) Karachay-Balkar: базар (bazar) Kazakh: базар (bazar), нарық (naryq) Khmer: ផ្សារ (km) (psaa) Korean: 시장(市場) (ko) (sijang), 바자 (baja) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: بازار (bazar), باژێر (bajêr) Northern Kurdish: bazar (ku), bajêr (ku) Kyrgyz: базар (ky) (bazar) Lao: ຕະຫລາດ (ta lāt), ຕະຫຼາດ (lo) (ta lāt) Latvian: tirgus (lv) m, bazārs m Lithuanian: turgus (lt) m Macedonian: па́зар (mk) m (pázar), ба́зар m (bázar) Malay: bazar, pasar (ms) Malayalam: ചന്ത (ml) (canta) Maranao: basar Marathi: बाजार (bājār) Mazanderani: بازار Mongolian: зах (mn) (zax), зах зээл (zax zeel) Nepali: बजार (ne) (bajār) Norwegian: basar m Ossetian: базар (bazar) Ottoman Turkish: بازار (bâzâr), پازار (pazar) Pashto: بازار (ps) m (bāzãr) Persian: بازار (fa) (bâzâr) Plautdietsch: Bassoa m Polish: rynek (pl) m, bazar (pl) m Portuguese: bazar (pt), mercado (pt) m Romanian: târg (ro) n, bazar (ro) n Russian: ры́нок (ru) m (rýnok), база́р (ru) m (bazár), я́рмарка (ru) f (jármarka) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: тржница f, трг m, пазар m Roman: tržnica (sh) f, trg (sh) m, pazar (sh) m Shor: мазар (mazar) Slovak: trh m Slovene: trg (sl) m Spanish: bazar (es) m, mercado (es) m Swahili: soko (sw) Swedish: basar (sv) c Tagalog: tiangge Tajik: бозор (tg) (bozor) Tatar: базар (tt) (bazar) Telugu: బజారు (bajāru) Thai: ตลาด (th) (dtà-làat), ตลาดนัด (th) (dtà-làat-nát) Turkish: pazar (tr) Turkmen: bazar (tk) Ukrainian: ри́нок (uk) m (rýnok), база́р (uk) m (bazár) Urdu: بازار m (bāzār), بزار (bazār) Uyghur: بازار (ug) (bazar) Uzbek: bozor (uz) Vietnamese: chợ (vi) Yakut: баһаар (bahaar) Yiddish: באַזאַר m (bazar) Zulu: ibhaza class 5/6

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Anagrams

• baraza

Dutch

Etymology

Ultimately from Persian بازار (bâzâr). Doublet of pasar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baːˈzaːr/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: ba‧zaar
• Rhymes: -aːr

Noun

bazaar m (plural bazaars, diminutive bazaartje n)

1. bazaar, a marketplace
2. fair

Indonesian

Noun

bazaar

1. Nonstandard form of bazar.