bazaar

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Alternative forms edit

bazar (obsolete)

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

(General Australian) IPA^(key): /bəˈzɐː/
(UK) IPA^(key): /bəˈzɑː(ɹ)/
(US) IPA^(key): /bəˈzɑɹ/
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Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
Homophone: bizarre (weak vowel merger)

Noun edit

bazaar (plural bazaars)

A marketplace, particularly in the Middle East and South Asia, and often covered with shops and stalls.
A shop selling articles that are either exotic or eclectic.
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.

Translations edit

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 (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 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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