bazaar

English

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
• 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 (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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Translations to be checked

• Ido: ^{(please verify)} bazaro (io)

Anagrams

• baraza

Dutch

Etymology

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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.