بازار

Arabic

Etymology

From Persian بازار (bâzâr).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baː.zaːr/

Noun

بَازَار • (bāzār) f (dual بَازَارَان (bāzārān), plural بَازَارَات (bāzārāt))

1. bazaar
2. Iranian traditional marketplace

Declension

Declension of noun بَازَار (bāzār)

singular	basic singular triptote
	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	بَازَار bāzār	الْبَازَار al-bāzār	بَازَار bāzār
nominative	بَازَارٌ bāzārun	الْبَازَارُ al-bāzāru	بَازَارُ bāzāru
accusative	بَازَارًا bāzāran	الْبَازَارَ al-bāzāra	بَازَارَ bāzāra
genitive	بَازَارٍ bāzārin	الْبَازَارِ al-bāzāri	بَازَارِ bāzāri
dual	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	بَازَارَيْن bāzārayn	الْبَازَارَيْن al-bāzārayn	بَازَارَيْ bāzāray
nominative	بَازَارَانِ bāzārāni	الْبَازَارَانِ al-bāzārāni	بَازَارَا bāzārā
accusative	بَازَارَيْنِ bāzārayni	الْبَازَارَيْنِ al-bāzārayni	بَازَارَيْ bāzāray
genitive	بَازَارَيْنِ bāzārayni	الْبَازَارَيْنِ al-bāzārayni	بَازَارَيْ bāzāray
plural	sound feminine plural
	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	بَازَارَات bāzārāt	الْبَازَارَات al-bāzārāt	بَازَارَات bāzārāt
nominative	بَازَارَاتٌ bāzārātun	الْبَازَارَاتُ al-bāzārātu	بَازَارَاتُ bāzārātu
accusative	بَازَارَاتٍ bāzārātin	الْبَازَارَاتِ al-bāzārāti	بَازَارَاتِ bāzārāti
genitive	بَازَارَاتٍ bāzārātin	الْبَازَارَاتِ al-bāzārāti	بَازَارَاتِ bāzārāti

Azerbaijani

Noun

بازار (bazar) (definite accusative بازارێ (bazarı), plural بازارلار (bazarlar))

1. Arabic spelling of bazar (“market”)

Declension

Declension of بازار

	singular	plural
nominative	بازار	بازارلار
definite accusative	بازارێ	بازارلارێ
dative	بازارا	بازارلارا
locative	بازاردا	بازارلاردا
ablative	بازاردان	بازارلاردان
definite genitive	بازارێن	بازارلارێن

Khalaj

Noun

بازار (bâzâr) (definite accusative بازارؽ, plural بازارلار)

1. Arabic spelling of bâzâr (“market”)

Declension

Declension of بازار

	singular	plural
nominative	بازار	بازارلار
genitive	بازارؽݧ	بازارلارؽݧ
dative	بازارقا	بازارلارقا
definite accusative	بازارؽ	بازارلارؽ
locative	بازارچا	بازارلارچا
ablative	بازاردا	بازارلاردا
instrumental	بازارلا	بازارلارلا
equative	بازاروارا	بازارلاروارا

Ottoman Turkish

بازار

Alternative forms

• پازار (pazar)
• փազար (pazar), պազար (bazar) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *wes-der.

Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-der.

Middle Persian wʾčʾl

Classical Persian بازارbor.

Ottoman Turkish بازار

Borrowed from Classical Persian بازار (bâzâr, “market, marketplace”).

Noun

بازار • (bazar) (definite accusative بازاری (bazarı), plural بازارلر (bazarlar))

1. market, mart, fair, a gathering of people for the purchase and sale of merchandise, often periodic at a set time

   Synonym: سوق (suk)

2. market, marketplace, bazaar, a relatively spacious outdoor area or street in a town or city housing a public market

   Synonyms: چارشو (çarşu), سوق (suk)

3. (by extension) Sunday, the first day of the week in many traditions, which follows Saturday and precedes Monday

   Synonym: بازار كونی (bazar günü)

Derived terms

• آخشام بازاری (ahşam bazarı, “night market”)
• بات بازاری (bat bazarı, “flea market”)
• بازار آخشامی (bazar ahşamı, “evening of Sunday”)
• بازار ایتمك (bazar etmek, “to bargain, chaffer”)
• بازار ایرته‌سی (bazar ertesi, “Monday”, literally “the day after Sunday”)
• بازار باشی (bazar başı, “warden of a market”)
• بازار بوزمق (bazar bozmak, “to spoil a market”)
• بازار قایغی (bazar kayığı, “large boat used on the Bosphorus”)
• بازار كسمك (bazar kesmek, “to fix or arrange a price”)
• بازار كونی (bazar günü, “Sunday”)
• بازار كیجه‌سی (bazar gecesi, “Sunday night”)
• بازارجی (bazarcı, “stallholder”)
• بازارلاشمق (bazarlaşmak, “to bargain, chaffer”)
• بازارلق (bazarlık, “bargaining, chaffering”)
• بازاری (bazarî, “pertaining to a market”)

Descendants

• Turkish: pazar, bazar
• → Old Polish: bazar
  • Polish: bazar
    • → Kashubian: bazôr, bazar

Further reading

click to expand

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “بازار”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 260
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “pazar”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3805
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “بازار”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 101a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بازار”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 238
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Mercatus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1047
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بازار”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 650
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “pazar”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بازار”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 321

Persian

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *wes-der.

Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-der.

Middle Persian wʾčʾl

Persian بازار

From Middle Persian wʾčʾl (wāzār, “market”); see it for further information.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /baː.ˈzaːɾ/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [bɑː.zɑ́ːɾ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [bɑː.zɑ́ːɾ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [bɑː.zɑ́ːɾ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [bɔː.zɔ́ːɾ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [bɒː.zɒ́ːɹ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [bɔ.zɔ́ɾ]

Readings
Classical reading?	bāzār
Dari reading?	bāzār
Iranian reading?	bâzâr
Tajik reading?	bozor

• Audio (Iran):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɑːr

Noun

Dari	بازار
Iranian Persian
Tajik	бозор

بازار • (bâzâr) (plural بازارها)

1. market
2. marketplace
3. bazaar

Derived terms

• بازاری (bâzâri)
• بازرگان (bâzargân)

Descendants

Descendants

• Tajik: бозор (bozor)
• → Arabic: بازار (bāzār)
• → Assamese: বজাৰ (bozar)
• → Azerbaijani: bazar, базар, بازار
• → Bashkir: баҙар (baźar)
• → Bengali: বাজার (bajar)
  • → Garo: bajal
• → Danish: basar
• → Dutch: bazaar
• → Esperanto: bazaro, budaro
• → Finnish: basaari
• → French: bazar
• → Greenlandic: basaari
• → Gujarati: બજાર (bajār)
• → Hajong: বাজাৰ (bajar)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: बाज़ार (bāzār)

  Urdu: بازار (bāzār)

  • → Kannada: ಬಜಾರ್ (bajār)
  • → Telugu: బజారు (bajāru)
• → Hungarian: bazár
• → Hungarian: pazarol
• → Hungarian: vásár
  • → Hungarian: vasárnap
  • → Serbo-Croatian: vašar, ва́шар
• → Italian: bazar
  • → English: bazaar
  • → Norwegian:
    • Norwegian Bokmål: basar
    • Norwegian Nynorsk: basar
  • → Portuguese: bazar
• → Khalaj: bâzâr
• → Kyrgyz: базар (bazar)
• → Marathi: बाजार (bājār)
• → Middle Armenian: բազար (bazar), պազար (pazar)
  • Armenian: բազար (bazar)
• → Nepali: बजार (bajār)
• → Odia: ବଜାର (bajāra)
• → Ottoman Turkish: بازار (bâzâr), پازار (pâzâr)
  • Turkish: pazar
  • → Albanian: pazar
  • → Bulgarian: пазар (pazar)
  • → Crimean Tatar: bazar
  • → Macedonian: пазар (pazar)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: pàzār, па̀за̄р
  • → German: Basar
    • → Hungarian: bazár
  • → Greek: παζάρι (pazári)
• → Punjabi: ਬਾਜਾਰ (bājār)
• → Russian: база́р (bazár)
• → Spanish: bazar
• → Swedish: basar
• → Tamil: பசார் (pacār)
  • → Malay: pasar
    • Indonesian: pasar
    • → Balinese: ᬧᬲᬃ (pasar)
    • → Chinese: 巴剎 / 巴刹
      • → Peranakan Indonesian: pasat
    • → Dutch: pasar
    • → Javanese: ꦥꦱꦂ (pasar)
    • → Petjo: passer
      • → Dutch: passer
    • → Sundanese: ᮕᮞᮁ (pasar)
    • → Western Cham: ꨚꨧꩉ (pasar)
      • → Khmer: ផ្សារ (phsaa)
• → Turkmen: bazar
• → Uyghur: بازار (bazar)
  • → Mandarin: 巴扎 (bāzhā)

Urdu

Alternative forms

• بزار (bazār) — colloquial pronunciation spelling

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian بازار (bāzār).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /bɑː.zɑːɾ/
• (colloquial) IPA^(key): /bə.zɑːɾ/
• Rhymes: -ɑːɾ
• Hyphenation: با‧زار

Noun

بازار • (bāzār) m (Hindi spelling बाज़ार)

1. market, souq (bazaar)

   Synonym: منڈی (manḍī)

Declension

Declension of بازار

	singular	plural
direct	بازار (bāzār)	بازار (bāzār)
oblique	بازار (bāzār)	بازاروں (bāzārõ)
vocative	بازار (bāzār)	بازارو (bāzāro)

Descendants

• → Tamil: பஜார் (pajār)
• → Telugu: బాజారు (bājāru), బజారు (bajāru)

Further reading

• “بازار”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “بازار”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “بازار”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.

Uyghur

Other scripts

Perso-Arabic	بازار
Latin	‍bazar‍
Cyrillic	базар

Etymology

From Persian بازار (bâzâr).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɑzɑr/

Noun

بازار • (bazar)

1. bazaar
2. market