wʾčʾl

Middle Persian

Alternative forms

• wʾčʾr (/⁠wāzār, wāčār⁠/)

Etymology

Probably from *vahā-čarana (“market-walkabout”), from Proto-Iranian *wahā-čā̆rana- (“selling, traffic”) (compare Persian بها (bahâ))— the first and latter elements whereof ultimately deriving from Proto-Indo-European *wes- (“to buy, sell”) and *kʷel- (“to turn, revolve”) respectively.

Noun

wʾčʾl • (/wāzār, wāčār/)

1. market, bazaar

Derived terms

• wʾčʾlkʾn' (/⁠wāzāragān⁠/, “merchant”)
• wʾčʾlkʾnyh (/⁠wāzār(a)gānīh⁠/, “trade”)
• 𐭥𐭠𐭰𐭠𐭫𐭯𐭲 (wʾčʾlpt /⁠wāzārbed⁠/)

Descendants

• → Old Armenian: վաճառ (vačaṙ)
  • Armenian: վաճառ (vačaṙ), վաճառք (vačaṙkʻ)
  • → Georgian: ვაჭარი (vač̣ari)
• → Old Armenian: վաճառգահ (vačaṙgah)
• Persian: بازار (bâzâr)
  • Tajik: бозор (bozor)
  • → Arabic: بازار (bāzār)
  • → Assamese: বজাৰ (bozar)
  • → Azerbaijani: bazar, базар, بازار
  • → Bashkir: баҙар (baźar)
  • → Bengali: বাজার (bajar)
  • → Danish: basar
  • → Esperanto: bazaro, budaro
  • → Finnish: basaari
  • → French: bazar
  • → Greenlandic: basaari
  • → Hajong: বাজাৰ (bajar)
  • → Hindustani:

    Hindi: बाज़ार (bāzār)

    Urdu: بازار (bāzār)

  • → 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
  • → Kannada: ಬಜಾರ್ (bajār)
  • → Khalaj: bâzâr
  • → Kyrgyz: базар (bazar)
  • → Marathi: बाजार (bājār)
  • → Middle Armenian: բազար (bazar), պազար (pazar)
    • Armenian: բազար (bazar)
  • → Nepali: बजार (bajār)
  • → 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)
  • → Polish: bazar
  • → Russian: база́р (bazár)
  • → Spanish: bazar
  • → Swedish: basar
  • → Tamil: பசார் (pacār)
    • → Malay: pasar
      • Indonesian: pasar
      • → Balinese: ᬧᬲᬃ (pasar)
      • → Chinese: 巴剎／巴刹
      • → Dutch: pasar
      • → Javanese: ꦥꦱꦂ (pasar)
      • → Petjo: passer
        • → Dutch: passer
      • → Sundanese: ᮕᮞᮁ (pasar)
      • → Western Cham: [script needed] (pasar)
        • → Khmer: ផ្សារ (phsaa)
  • → Turkmen: bazar
  • → Uyghur: بازار (bazar)
    • → Mandarin: 巴扎 (bāzhā)

References

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “wāzār”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press
• http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/bazar-index