bazar

See also: Bazar and bazár

English

Noun

bazar (plural bazars)

1. Obsolete spelling of bazaar.

Anagrams

• zabra

Azerbaijani

Other scripts

Cyrillic		базар
Arabic		بازار

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *wes-der.

Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-der.

Middle Persian wʾčʾl

Classical Persian بازارbor.

Azerbaijani bazar

Borrowed from Classical Persian بازار (bâzâr).

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

bazar (definite accusative bazarı, plural bazarlar)

1. bazaar, marketplace
2. Sunday

   Synonyms: yekşənbə, yövmüləhəd

3. (Osku, dialectal, archaic) Thursday

Usage notes

• The sense 'Sunday' is mostly used within the phrase bazar günü, 'the day of Sunday'.
• Some cities in Iran Azerbaijan have markets specific for a day of week, and the day market is set is usually called Bazar by local people.

Declension

Declension of bazar

	singular	plural
nominative	bazar	bazarlar
definite accusative	bazarı	bazarları
dative	bazara	bazarlara
locative	bazarda	bazarlarda
ablative	bazardan	bazarlardan
definite genitive	bazarın	bazarların

Possessive forms of bazar

	nominative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	bazarım	bazarlarım
sənin (“your”)	bazarın	bazarların
onun (“his/her/its”)	bazarı	bazarları
bizim (“our”)	bazarımız	bazarlarımız
sizin (“your”)	bazarınız	bazarlarınız
onların (“their”)	bazarı or bazarları	bazarları
	accusative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	bazarımı	bazarlarımı
sənin (“your”)	bazarını	bazarlarını
onun (“his/her/its”)	bazarını	bazarlarını
bizim (“our”)	bazarımızı	bazarlarımızı
sizin (“your”)	bazarınızı	bazarlarınızı
onların (“their”)	bazarını or bazarlarını	bazarlarını
	dative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	bazarıma	bazarlarıma
sənin (“your”)	bazarına	bazarlarına
onun (“his/her/its”)	bazarına	bazarlarına
bizim (“our”)	bazarımıza	bazarlarımıza
sizin (“your”)	bazarınıza	bazarlarınıza
onların (“their”)	bazarına or bazarlarına	bazarlarına
	locative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	bazarımda	bazarlarımda
sənin (“your”)	bazarında	bazarlarında
onun (“his/her/its”)	bazarında	bazarlarında
bizim (“our”)	bazarımızda	bazarlarımızda
sizin (“your”)	bazarınızda	bazarlarınızda
onların (“their”)	bazarında or bazarlarında	bazarlarında
	ablative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	bazarımdan	bazarlarımdan
sənin (“your”)	bazarından	bazarlarından
onun (“his/her/its”)	bazarından	bazarlarından
bizim (“our”)	bazarımızdan	bazarlarımızdan
sizin (“your”)	bazarınızdan	bazarlarınızdan
onların (“their”)	bazarından or bazarlarından	bazarlarından
	genitive
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	bazarımın	bazarlarımın
sənin (“your”)	bazarının	bazarlarının
onun (“his/her/its”)	bazarının	bazarlarının
bizim (“our”)	bazarımızın	bazarlarımızın
sizin (“your”)	bazarınızın	bazarlarınızın
onların (“their”)	bazarının or bazarlarının	bazarlarının

See also

• days of the week: həftənin günləri (appendix): bazar ertəsi · çərşənbə axşamı · çərşənbə · cümə axşamı · cümə · şənbə · bazar ^[edit]

Crimean Tatar

Other scripts
Cyrillic	базар
Roman

Etymology

From Persian بازار (bâzâr).

Noun

bazar

1. bazaar, marketplace.
2. Sunday

Declension

Declension of bazar

	singular	plural
nominative	bazar	bazarlar
genitive	bazarnıñ	bazarlarnıñ
dative	bazarğa	bazarlarğa
accusative	bazarnı	bazarlarnı
locative	bazarda	bazarlarda
ablative	bazardan	bazarlardan

References

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002), Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎^[2], Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN
• “bazar”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

French

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *wes-der.

Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-der.

Middle Persian wʾčʾl

Classical Persian بازارbor.

French bazar

First attested in c. 1432 in Middle French bazar, from Ottoman Turkish بازار (bazar), from Persian بازار (bâzâr).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.zaʁ/

• Audio (Paris); “un bazar”:

  (file)

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Homophone: bazars
• Hyphenation: ba‧zar

Noun

bazar m (plural bazars)

1. bazaar
2. (derogatory) junk, things
3. (colloquial) mess, jumble

   Synonyms: bordel, foutoir

   mettre le bazar

   make a mess, mess things up

4. (historical) brothel [from 19th c.]
5. (historical) slave market [from 18th c.]

Synonyms

• (bazaar, market): souk, foire, marché
• (junk): pagaille, pagaïe, pagaye

Further reading

• “bazar”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
• “bazar”, in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse
• “bazar” in Dico en ligne Le Robert.

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from English bazaar or Dutch bazaar, from Middle French bazar or Italian bazar, from Ottoman Turkish بازار (bâzâr), from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (wʾčʾl /⁠wāzār⁠/, “market”). Doublet of pasar.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈbazar/ [ˈba.zar]
• Rhymes: -azar
• Syllabification: ba‧zar

Noun

bazar (plural bazar-bazar)

1. bazaar

Alternative forms

• bazaar

Further reading

• “bazar”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بازار (bazar), from Persian بازار (bâzâr).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /badˈd͡zar/
• Rhymes: -ar
• Hyphenation: ba‧zàr

Noun

bazar m (invariable)

1. bazaar

Descendants

• → English: bazaar, bazar (obsolete)
• → Norwegian:
  • Norwegian Bokmål: basar
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: basar
• → Portuguese: bazar

Further reading

• bazar in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Macanese

Etymology

Presumably from Portuguese bazar (“bazaar”), from Italian bazar, from Persian بازار (bâzâr, “market”), from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (wʾčʾl /⁠wāzār⁠/, “market”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baˈzaɾ/, /baˈza/

Noun

bazar

1. market

   vai bazar comprâ sôm ― to go to the market to buy groceries

References

• https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm#b

Old Polish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *wes-der.

Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-der.

Middle Persian wʾčʾl

Classical Persian بَازَار (bāzār)bor.

Ottoman Turkish بازارbor.

Old Polish bazar

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بازار (bâzâr). First attested in 1500.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /bazar/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /bazar/

Noun

bazar m animacy unattested

1. item of trade
   • 1952 [1500], Josip Hamm, editor, Altpolnisches aus kroatischen Archiven, page 175:

     W Zawolskyey ordze rosstargnąly szyą panovye myedzy ssobą y zabraly bazar, y s poloviczą bazarv poschly do Czirkass. Druga polovicza rosstargala szyą myedzy gymy

     [W Zawolskiej Ordzie roztargnęli się panowie miedzy sobą i zabrali bazar, i z połowicą bazaru poszli do Czyrkas. Druga połowica roztargała się między jimi]

Descendants

• Polish: bazar
  • → Kashubian: bazôr, bazar

References

• B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “bazar”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Polish

bazar

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *wes-der.

Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-der.

Middle Persian wʾčʾl

Classical Persian بَازَار (bāzār)bor.

Ottoman Turkish بازارbor.

Old Polish bazar

Polish bazar

Inherited from Old Polish bazar.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈba.zar/

• (Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /ˈba.zar/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -azar
• Syllabification: ba‧zar

Noun

bazar m inan (diminutive bazarek, related adjective bazarowy)

1. bazaar (marketplace with stalls)

   Synonyms: targ, targowisko

2. trade (act of buying and selling at a bazaar)

   Synonyms: jarmark, targ

3. (archaic) fair (event for trading)

   Synonym: kiermasz

4. (obsolete) transport; delivery (act of transporting goods for trade)

Declension

Declension of bazar

	singular	plural
nominative	bazar	bazary
genitive	bazaru	bazarów
dative	bazarowi	bazarom
accusative	bazar	bazary
instrumental	bazarem	bazarami
locative	bazarze	bazarach
vocative	bazarze	bazary

Derived terms

nouns

• bazarowicz
• bazarowiczka

Descendants

• → Kashubian: bazôr, bazar

Further reading

• bazar in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• bazar in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Maria Renata Mayenowa; Stanisław Rospond; Witold Taszycki; Stefan Hrabec; Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023), “bazar”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
• Danuta Lankiewicz (10.12.2008), “BAZAR”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “bazar”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “bazar”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “bazar”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 107

Portuguese

Etymology 1

From Italian bazar, from Persian بازار (bâzâr, “market”), from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (wʾčʾl /⁠wāzār⁠/, “market”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /baˈzaʁ/ [baˈzah]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /baˈzaʁ/ [baˈzah]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /baˈzaɾ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /baˈzaʁ/ [baˈzaχ]
  • (Caipira) IPA^(key): /baˈzaɻ/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɐˈzaɾ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɐˈzaɾ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɐˈza.ɾi/

• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): [ba.ˈzah]
• Hyphenation: ba‧zar

Noun

bazar m (plural bazares)

1. bazaar (a covered or enclosed public marketplace, especially one in the Middle East)

   Synonym: souq

2. bazaar (a temporary market or stall for charity), especially one housing a rummage sale
3. (Portugal) a shop, especially a grocery store

   Synonyms: loja, armazém, mercado, mercearia, armazém

4. (Brazil) thrift shop (shop that sells used goods for a low price)

   Synonyms: (Brazil) brechó, adelo

5. the sale of one’s used items: a yard sale, garage sale or jumble sale, or the act of selling to a thrift shop
6. (figurative) marketplace (a place or sphere for the exchange of anything)

   Synonyms: empório, mercado

Etymology 2

From Kimbundu baza (“to rupture”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /baˈza(ʁ)/ [baˈza(h)]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /baˈza(ʁ)/ [baˈza(h)]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /baˈza(ɾ)/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /baˈza(ʁ)/ [baˈza(χ)]
  • (Caipira) IPA^(key): /baˈza(ɻ)/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɐˈzaɾ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɐˈzaɾ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɐˈza.ɾi/

• Hyphenation: ba‧zar

Verb

bazar (first-person singular present bazo, first-person singular preterite bazei, past participle bazado)

1. (Angola, Portugal, colloquial) to scram; to get out (to leave hurriedly)

   Synonyms: desaparecer, sumir, (Brazil) vazar

Conjugation

    Conjugation of bazar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)

	Singular			Plural
	First-person (eu)	Second-person (tu)	Third-person (ele / ela / você)	First-person (nós)	Second-person (vós)	Third-person (eles / elas / vocês)
Infinitive
Impersonal	bazar
Personal	bazar	bazares	bazar	bazarmos	bazardes	bazarem
Gerund
	bazando
Past participle
Masculine	bazado			bazados
Feminine	bazada			bazadas
Indicative
Present	bazo	bazas	baza	bazamos	bazais	bazam
Imperfect	bazava	bazavas	bazava	bazávamos	bazáveis	bazavam
Preterite	bazei	bazaste	bazou	bazamos1, bazámos2	bazastes	bazaram
Pluperfect	bazara	bazaras	bazara	bazáramos	bazáreis	bazaram
Future	bazarei	bazarás	bazará	bazaremos	bazareis	bazarão
Conditional	bazaria	bazarias	bazaria	bazaríamos	bazaríeis	bazariam
Subjunctive
Present	baze	bazes	baze	bazemos	bazeis	bazem
Imperfect	bazasse	bazasses	bazasse	bazássemos	bazásseis	bazassem
Future	bazar	bazares	bazar	bazarmos	bazardes	bazarem
Imperative
Affirmative		baza	baze	bazemos	bazai	bazem
Negative (não)		não bazes	não baze	não bazemos	não bazeis	não bazem

¹Brazilian Portuguese.
²European Portuguese.

Further reading

• “bazar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “bazar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French bazar.

Noun

bazar n (plural bazaruri)

1. bazaar

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	bazar	bazarul		bazare	bazarele
genitive-dative	bazar	bazarului		bazare	bazarelor
vocative	bazarule			bazarelor

Salar

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian بازار. Cognate with Azerbaijani bazar.

Pronunciation

• (Xunhua, Qinghai; Ili, Xinjiang) IPA^(key): /pɑzɑr/

Noun

bazar (3rd person possessive bazarı, plural bazarlar)

1. bazaar, market

References

• Potanin, G.N. (1893), “bazar”, in Тангутско-Тибетская окраина Китая и Центральная Монголия (in Russian)
• Kakuk, S. (1962), “bazar”, in “Un Vocabulaire Salar”, in Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae‎^[3], volume 14, number 2, Akadémiai Kiadó, →ISBN, pages 173-196
• Tenishev, Edhem (1976), “bazar”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow, page 440
• 林 (Lin), 莲云 (Lianyun) (1992), “bazar”, in 撒拉汉汉撒拉词汇 [Salar-Chinese, Chinese-Salar Vocabulary], 成都: 四川民族出版社, →ISBN, page 26
• Yakup, Abdurishid (2002), “bazar”, in An Ili Salar Vocabulary: Introduction and a Provisional Salar-English Lexicon‎^[4], Tokyo: University of Tokyo, →ISBN, page 57

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baˈθaɾ/ [baˈθaɾ] (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
• IPA^(key): /baˈsaɾ/ [baˈsaɾ] (Latin America, Philippines)

• Audio (Venezuela):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ba‧zar
• Homophone: (Latin America) basar

Noun

bazar m (plural bazares)

1. bazaar (marketplace)

Derived terms

• bazar chino

Further reading

• “bazar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Zazaki

Etymology

Compare Persian بازار (bâzâr, “market”).

Noun

bazar c

1. bazaar, market or market place, assemblage of shops
2. Sunday