بازار

Arabic

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian بَازَار (bāzār).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baː.zaːr/

Noun

بَازَار • (bāzār) f (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 بَازَار (bāzār)bor.

Ottoman Turkish بازار

Borrowed from Classical Persian بَازَار (bāzār, “market, marketplace”).

Noun

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

1. market, mart, fair

   Synonym: سوق (suk)

2. market, marketplace, bazaar

   Synonyms: چارشو (çarşu), سوق (suk)

3. ellipsis of بازار كونی (bâzâr günü, “Sunday”)

Derived terms

• آخشام بازاری (ahşam bazarı, “night market”)
• بات بازاری (bat bazarı, “flea market”)
• 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”)
• بازارجی (bazarcı, “stallholder”)
• بازارلاشمق (bazarlaşmak, “to bargain, chaffer”)
• بازارلق (bazarlık, “bargaining, chaffering”)
• بازاری (bazarî, “pertaining to a market”)

Descendants

• > Turkish: bazar, pazar (inherited)
• → Albanian: pazar
• → Bulgarian: пазар (pazar)
• → Crimean Tatar: bazar
• → Middle French: bazar
  • French: bazar
    • → Esperanto: bazaro
    • → German: Basar
      • → Hungarian: bazár
  • → English: bazaar, bazar (obsolete)
• → Italian: bazar
  • → English: bazaar, bazar (obsolete)
  • → Norwegian:
    • Norwegian Bokmål: basar
    • Norwegian Nynorsk: basar
  • → Portuguese: bazar
• → Greek: παζάρι (pazári)
• → Macedonian: пазар (pazar)
• → Old Polish: bazar
  • Polish: bazar
    • → Kashubian: bazôr, bazar
• → Serbo-Croatian: pàzār, па̀за̄р
  • → Hungarian: pazarol

Further reading

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• 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

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

Pronunciation

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

 

• (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):

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• Rhymes: -ɑːr

Noun

بازار • (bāzār / bâzâr) (plural بازارها (bāzār-hā / bâzâr-hâ), Tajik spelling бозор)

1. market
2. marketplace
3. bazaar

Derived terms

• بازاری (bâzâri)
• بازرگان (bâzargân)

Descendants

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

  Hindi: बाज़ार (bāzār), बाजार (bājār) — nuqtaless, बज़ार (bazār) — rare, pronunciation spelling, बजार (bajār) — nuqtaless, rare, pronunciation spelling

  Urdu: بازار (bāzār), بَزَار (bazār) — colloquial

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

• → Hungarian: vásár
  • → Hungarian: vasárnap
  • → Serbo-Croatian: vašar, ва́шар
• → 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 (pazar), փազար (pazar), պազար (bazar) — Armeno-Turkish
  • > Turkish: bazar, pazar (inherited)
  • → Albanian: pazar
  • → Bulgarian: пазар (pazar)
  • → Crimean Tatar: bazar
  • → Middle French: bazar
    • French: bazar
      • → Esperanto: bazaro
      • → German: Basar
        • → Hungarian: bazár
    • → English: bazaar, bazar (obsolete)
  • → Italian: bazar
    • → English: bazaar, bazar (obsolete)
    • → Norwegian:
      • Norwegian Bokmål: basar
      • Norwegian Nynorsk: basar
    • → Portuguese: bazar
  • → Greek: παζάρι (pazári)
  • → Macedonian: пазар (pazar)
  • → Old Polish: bazar
    • Polish: bazar
      • → Kashubian: bazôr, bazar
  • → Serbo-Croatian: pàzār, па̀за̄р
    • → Hungarian: pazarol
• → Punjabi: ਬਾਜ਼ਾਰ (bāzār), ਬਾਜਾਰ (bājār), ਬਜ਼ਾਰ (bazār), ਬਜਾਰ (bajār)
• → 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

• بَزَار (bazār) — colloquial

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian بَازَار (bāzār).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

بازار • (bāzār) m

1. market, souq (bazaar)

   Synonym: مَنْڈِی (manḍī)

Declension

Declension of بازار

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

Descendants

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

Further reading

• بازار on the Urdu Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ur
• “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

Arabic	بازار
Latin	bazar‍
Cyrillic	базар (bazar)

Note: The Cyrillic follows the Kazakhstani standard.

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *wes-der.

Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-der.

Middle Persian wʾčʾl

Classical Persian بَازَار (bāzār)bor.

Uyghur بازار (bazar)

Borrowed from Classical Persian بَازَار (bāzār).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɑzɑr/

Noun

بازار • (bazar) (plural بازارلار (bazarlar))

1. bazaar
2. market