market

See also: Market, märket, and Märket

English

Etymology

From Middle English market, from late Old English market (“market”) and Anglo-Norman markiet (Old French marchié); both ultimately from Latin mercātus (“trade, market”), from mercor (“I trade, deal in, buy”), itself derived from merx (“wares, merchandise”). Cognate with West Frisian merk, Dutch markt, Old High German Markt.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑːkɪt/

• Audio (UK):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑɹkɪt/

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• (weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑɹkət/
• Hyphenation: mar‧ket
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)kɪt, -ɑɹkət

Noun

market (plural markets)

2. A gathering of people for the purchase and sale of merchandise, often periodic at a set time.

   Synonyms: mart, fair

   The right to hold a weekly market was an invaluable privilege not given to all towns in the Middle Ages.

   There's a market every Thursday and Saturday in the town square.

   • 1949, Ludwig Von Mises, Human Action:

     The market is a process, actuated by the interplay of the actions of the various individuals cooperating under the division of labor.

4. A relatively spacious outdoor or covered site where traders set up stalls, either temporarily or permanently or semi-permanently, and buyers browse the merchandise.

   Synonyms: marketplace, bazaar, arcade

   This site on North Street used to be the market, until it was redeveloped.

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

     ‘I understand that the district was considered a sort of sanctuary,’ the Chief was saying. ‘ […] They tell me there was a recognized swag market down here.’

   • 2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32:

     The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters such as ostrich, wild boar and crocodile. Only the city zoo offers greater species diversity.

6. Any physical store selling groceries, such as a grocery store or convenience store.

   Hyponym: supermarket (large type)

   Stop by the market on your way home and pick up some milk.

   • 1999, Cheryl Mendelson, Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House, Scribner, →ISBN, pages 45-46:

     Mixes [such as cake mixes, pancake mixes, or sauce mixes] are sometimes a reasonable alternative and sometimes not. […] Pancake mixes often offer no advantages at all. Nonetheless, there are times when you would be foolish not to use a mix. Perhaps a domestic emergency occurs. Perhaps cupcakes must be brought to school tomorrow morning, but when you stop at the market on your way home from work, you cannot remember whether you have baking powder, cream of tartar, baking soda, nutmeg, cake flour, chocolate, or vanilla on your shelf, or you want to go through the “five items or fewer” line. So you buy the mix. Only a glutton for punishment would do otherwise.

8. A group of potential or current customers for one's product.

   We believe that the market for the new widget will be the older homeowner.

   Senior citizens are our core market at present, and we can't afford to alienate them as we explore other markets.

   • 1848, John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John W[illiam] Parker, […], →OCLC:

     There is a third thing to be considered: how a market can be created for produce, or how production can be limited to the capacities of the market.

10. A geographical area or region where a certain commercial demand exists.

    Foreign markets were lost as our currency rose versus their valuta.

12. A formally organized, sometimes monopolistic, system of trading in specified goods or effects.

    Coordinate term: distribution channel (sometimes broadly synonymous)

    The stock market ceased to be monopolized by the paper-shuffling national stock exchanges with the advent of Internet markets.

    • 1980, InfoWorld, volume 2, number 20:

      As they were approaching bankruptcy from being knocked out of the calculator market, they began development on the first commercially available microcomputer, the Altair.

    • 2014 March 15, “Turn it off”, in The Economist, volume 410, number 8878:

      If the takeover is approved, Comcast would control 20 of the top 25 cable markets, […]. Antitrust officials will need to consider Comcast’s status as a monopsony (a buyer with disproportionate power), when it comes to negotiations with programmers, whose channels it pays to carry.

14. The sum total traded in a process of individuals trading for certain commodities.
16. The price for which a thing is sold in a market; hence, value or worth; market value.

    Q: What's the market on such a thing, nowadays? A: Oh, no less than forty, I should reckon.

    • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]:

      What is a man / If his chief good and market of his time / Be but to sleep and feed?

Derived terms

• aftermarket
• after-market
• antimarket
• antiques market
• bear market
• black market
• black-market
• bond market
• bring one's own hide to market
• bull market
• buyer's market
• capital market
• capital market line
• carbon market
• carry one's own hide to market
• cattle market
• Christmas market
• clear the market
• comarket
• commodity market
• Common Market
• common market
• competitive market
• corner the market
• cornmarket
• crab market
• cryptomarket
• curb market
• currency market
• cybermarket
• dark market
• darknet market
• decision market
• demarket
• derivatives market
• downmarket
• drive one's pigs to market
• drug in the market
• drug on the market
• dry market
• efficient market hypothesis
• e-market
• emerging market
• Euromarket
• euromarket
• factor market
• fair market value
• farmer's market
• farmers' market
• farm market
• feeing market
• financial market
• fishmarket
• flea market
• flea-market
• floating market
• foreign exchange market
• forward market
• fourth market
• free-market
• free market
• free-market fundamentalism
• futures market
• global market
• go-to-market
• gray market
• greenmarket
• grey market
• hard market
• home market
• home market effect
• horizontal market
• housing market
• hypermarket
• information market
• job market
• labor market
• labour market
• main market
• Mammi market
• mammy market
• marchitecture
• marketability
• marketable
• market anarchy
• market basket
• market bell
• market bubble
• market cap
• market capitalization
• market citizen
• market citizenship
• market class
• market clearing
• market communism
• market correction
• market cross
• market cycle
• market day
• market discipline
• market economy
• marketecture
• marketeer
• market equilibrium
• market failure
• market force
• market foreclosure
• marketful
• market fundamentalism
• market garden
• market-garden
• market gardener
• market gardening
• market-goer
• market horse
• market-house
• market index
• marketing
• marketisation
• marketise
• marketist
• marketize
• market jitters
• market leader
• market-led
• marketless
• market letter
• marketlike
• market maker
• marketman
• market microstructure
• market opening
• marketor
• market order
• market overhang
• market overt
• market penetration
• market place
• marketplace
• market-place
• market portfolio
• market power
• market price
• market research
• market return
• market-ripe
• market risk
• market sector
• market segment
• market segmentation
• market share
• market-share
• market socialism
• marketspace
• market square
• market stall
• market-stead
• market stead
• marketstead
• market supplement
• market sweep
• market timing
• market tone
• market town
• market-town
• market urbanism
• market urbanist
• market-urbanist
• market value
• marketwide
• marketwise
• marketworthy
• mark to market
• mark-to-market
• mass market
• mass-market
• meat market
• meet market
• megamarket
• metamarket
• micromarket
• middle-market
• middle of the market
• midmarket
• Mid-Market
• mini market
• minimarket
• mismarket
• missing market
• money market
• money-market fund
• money market fund
• multimarket
• niche market
• night market
• nonmarket
• non-market
• off-market
• on the market
• open market
• Operation Market Time
• overmarket
• perfect market
• pitched market
• postmarket
• prediction market
• predictive market
• premarket
• price out of the market
• primary market
• producer-only market
• product market
• promarket
• property market
• remarket
• sample market
• secondary market
• security market line
• seller's market
• sexual market value
• sharemarket
• single market
• slave market
• soft market
• spoil market
• spoil the market
• spot market
• stock market
• stock market crash
• stock market index
• street market
• submarket
• supermarket
• take one's own hide to market
• target market
• telemarket
• test-market
• third market
• time-to-market
• time to market
• transfer market
• upmarket
• vertical market
• virtual market
• wet market
• white market

Place names derived from market

• Burnham Market
• Downham Market
• Elmstead Market
• Haymarket
• Market Bosworth
• Market Deeping
• Market Drayton
• Market Harborough
• Market Lavington
• Market Rasen
• Market Weighton
• Needham Market
• Pulham Market
• Thorpe Market
• Wickham Market

Related terms

• mart
• mercantile
• merchant

Descendants

• → Bengali: মার্কেট (markeṭ)
• → Hindi: मार्केट (mārkeṭ)
• → Japanese: マーケット (māketto)
• → Korean: 마켓 (maket)
• → Odia: ମାର୍କେଟ୍ (mārkeṭ)
• → Persian: (Dari) مارکیت (mârkêt)
• → Turkish: market
• → Urdu: مارکیٹ (markeṭ)

Translations

gathering for trading

• Arabic: سُوق (ar) m (sūq)
• Bashkir: баҙар (baźar)
• Bavarian: Morkt
• Catalan: mercat (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 市場 / 市场 (zh) (shìchǎng)

• Czech: trh (cs) m
• Danish: marked (da) n
• Dutch: markt (nl) m
• Esperanto: bazaro
• Finnish: markkinat (fi) pl
• French: marché (fr) m
• Galician: feira (gl) f, mercado (gl) m
• German: Markt (de) m
• Gothic: 𐌼𐌰𐌸𐌻 n (maþl)
• Greek: αγορά (el) f (agorá)
• Hebrew: שוק (he) m (shuk)
• Hungarian: vásár (hu)
• Indonesian: pasar (id)
• Ingrian: turu, markkinat, laatta
• Irish: margadh m
• Italian: mercato (it) m
• Latin: macellum n
• Latvian: tirgus (lv) m
• Low German:

  German Low German: Markt (nds) m or n

• Malay: pasar (ms)
• Middle English: market
• Ottoman Turkish: سوق (suk)
• Plautdietsch: Moakjt m
• Portuguese: feira (pt) f
• Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi: ਮੰਡੀ f (maṇḍī)

  Shahmukhi: مَنْڈی f (manḍī)

• Russian: я́рмарка (ru) f (jármarka)
• Scottish Gaelic: margaid f, margadh m, fèill f
• Sicilian: fera (scn) f, mircatu (scn) m
• Sindhi: بزار (bazār)
• Spanish: feria (es) f
• Sranan Tongo: wowoyo
• Swahili: soko (sw)
• Swedish: marknad (sv) c
• Tamil: சந்தை (ta) (cantai)
• Tibetan: ཁྲོམ (khrom)
• Vietnamese: chợ

spacious site for trading

• Abkhaz: аџьармыкьа (adžarməkʲʼa)
• Adyghe: бэдзэр (bɛdzɛr)
• Afrikaans: mark (af)
• Ahom: 𑜀𑜄𑜫 (kat)
• Albanian: treg (sq) m
• Alviri-Vidari: بازار (bāzār)
• Amharic: ገበያ (gäbäya), ሱቅ (suḳ)
• Arabic: سُوق (ar) m or f (sūq)

  Egyptian Arabic: سوق m (sūʔ)

  Hijazi Arabic: سوق m (sūg)

• Armenian: շուկա (hy) (šuka)
• Assamese: বজাৰ (bozar)
• Asturian: mercáu (ast) m
• Avar: базар (bazar)
• Azerbaijani: bazar (az), çarşı (az) (archaic)
• Bashkir: баҙар (baźar)
• Basque: azoka, merkatu
• Bavarian: Morkt
• Belarusian: ры́нак m (rýnak), база́р m (bazár)
• Bengali: বাজার (bn) (bajar), মার্কেট (bn) (markeṭ)
• Bole: goma
• Bulgarian: паза́р (bg) m (pazár), база́р (bg) m (bazár)
• Burmese: ဈေး (my) (jhe:)
• Catalan: mercat (ca) m
• Cebuano: tiyanggi
• Chechen: базар (bazar)
• Chichewa: msika
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 市場 / 市场 (si⁵ coeng⁴)

  Dungan: сычон (sɨčon), сы (sɨ), базар (bazar)

  Eastern Min: 市場 / 市场 (chê-diòng)

  Hakka: 市場 / 市场 (sṳ-chhòng)

  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)

  Wu: 市場 / 市场

• Chuvash: пасар (pas̬ar)
• Classical Nahuatl: tiyānquiztli
• Crimean Tatar: bazar, çarşı
• Czech: tržnice (cs) f, trh (cs) m, tržiště (cs) n
• Danish: marked (da) n, markedsplads c, torv (da) n
• Dutch: markt (nl) m, marktplein (nl) n
• Eastern Cham: darak
• Esperanto: merkato
• Estonian: turg
• Farefare: da'aga
• Faroese: marknaður m
• Finnish: tori (fi), kauppatori (fi)
• French: marché (fr) m

  Old French: marchiet, market (Old Norman)

• Friulian: marcjât m, marčhât
• Fula:

  Adlam: 𞤶𞤫𞥅𞤪𞤫

  Latin: jeere

• Galician: mercado (gl) m, praza do mercado f
• Georgian: ბაზარი (ka) (bazari)
• German: Markt (de) m, Marktplatz (de) m

  Alemannic German: Märcht m (Uri)

• Gothic: 𐌼𐌰𐌸𐌻 n (maþl)
• Greek: αγορά (el) f (agorá), παζάρι (el) n (pazári)

  Ancient: ἀγορά f (agorá)

• Gujarati: બજાર (gu) n (bajār), હાટ f (hāṭ)
• Hausa: kasuwa (ha)
• Hebrew: שׁוּק (he) m (shuk)
• Hindi: बाज़ार (hi) m (bāzār), मार्केट (hi) m (mārkeṭ), हाट (hi) (hāṭ), गंज (hi) m (gañj), मंडी (hi) f (maṇḍī), बजार (hi) m (bajār), बाजार (hi) m (bājār)
• Hungarian: piac (hu), vásárcsarnok (hu)
• Hunsrik: Mërkaate m
• Icelandic: markaður (is) m
• Ido: merkato (io)
• Indonesian: pasar (id)
• Irish: margadh m
• Isan: please add this translation if you can
• Isoko: eki
• Italian: mercato (it) m
• Jamaican Creole: maakit
• Japanese: 市場 (ja) (いちば, ichiba), マーケット (ja) (māketto)
• Javanese: pasar (jv)
• Kambaata: dikkuta
• Kannada: ಪೇಟೆ (kn) (pēṭe), ಕೊಳ್ಳು (kn) (koḷḷu), ಮಾರುಕಟ್ಟೆ (kn) (mārukaṭṭe)
• Karachay-Balkar: базар (bazar)
• Kashubian: rënk m, tôrg m, mark m
• Kazakh: нарық (naryq), базар (bazar)
• Khmer: ផ្សារ (km) (phsaa), អាបណ (km) (ʼaapaʼnaʼ)
• Korean: 시장(市場) (ko) (sijang), 마켓 (ko) (maket)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: بازار (bazar)

  Northern Kurdish: bazar (ku)

• Kyrgyz: базар (ky) (bazar)
• Ladin: marcià
• Lao: ຕະຫຼາດ (lo) (ta lāt)
• Latin: forum (la) n, mercātus m
• Latvian: tirgus (lv) m, bazārs m
• Lezgi: базар (bazar)
• Lithuanian: turgus (lt) m, turgavietė f, prekyvietė f
• Low German:

  German Low German: Markt (nds) m or n

• Lü: ᦂᦱᧆ (k̇aad)
• Luxembourgish: Maart m
• Macedonian: па́зар (mk) m (pázar)
• Malagasy: tsena (mg)
• Malay: pasar (ms), pekan (ms)
• Malayalam: ചന്ത (ml) (canta), അങ്ങാടി (ml) (aṅṅāṭi)
• Maltese: suq (mt) m
• Marathi: बाजार n (bājār)
• Mari: леведышан (ĺevedyšan)
• Middle English: market
• Mon: ဖျာ (mnw)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: зах (mn) (zax), зах зээл (zax zeel)

  Mongolian: ᠵᠠᠬ᠎ᠠ (ǰak-a)

• Moore: raaga
• Neapolitan: mercato m
• Nepali: बजार (ne) (bajār)
• Norman: marchi
• Northern Thai: ᨠᩣ᩠ᨯ
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: marked (no) n, markedsplass (no) m

  Nynorsk: marknad n

• Occitan: mercat (oc)
• Odia: ମାର୍କେଟ୍ (or) (mārkeṭ), ବଜାର (or) (bajāra)
• Old Norse: markaðr m, marknaðr m
• Oromo: gabaa
• Ossetian: базар (bazar)
• Ottoman Turkish: بازار (bazar), پازار (pazar), سوق (suk)
• Pannonian Rusyn: тарґовище n (targovišče), пияц m (pijac), ринок m (rinok)
• Pashto: بازار (ps) m (bāzār)
• Persian:

  Classical Persian: بَازَار (bāzār)

  Dari: بَازَار (bāzār), مَارْکیت (mārkēt)

  Iranian Persian: بازار (fa) (bâzâr)

• Pijin: maket
• Plautdietsch: Moakjt m
• Polish: rynek (pl) m inan, targ (pl) m inan, targowisko (pl) n, bazar (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: feira (pt) f, mercado (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਬਜ਼ਾਰ m (bazār), ਹਾਟ m (hāṭ)
• Romani: foro m
• Romanian: târg (ro) n, piață (ro) f
• Romansch: martgà
• Russian: ры́нок (ru) m (rýnok), база́р (ru) m (bazár)
• Sanskrit: पण्यशाला (sa) f (paṇyaśālā)
• Sardinian: malcadu
• Scots: mercat
• Scottish Gaelic: margaid f, margadh m, fèill f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тр̏г m, па̀за̄р m, тр̀жница f, пѝјаца f

  Roman: tȑg (sh) m, pàzār (sh) m, tr̀žnica (sh) f, pìjaca (sh) f

• Shan: ၵၢတ်ႇ (shn) (kàat)
• Sicilian: mircatu (scn), fera (scn) f
• Sidamo: dikko
• Sindhi: بزار (bazār)
• Sinhalese: අළෙවිපළ (aḷewipaḷa)
• Slovak: trh m, trhovisko n, tržnica f
• Slovene: trg (sl) m
• Somali: seylad, suuq
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: wiki pl, wikowanišćo n, mark m

  Upper Sorbian: torhošćo n, wiki pl (rare)

• Southern Thai: หลาด
• Spanish: plaza (es) f, mercado (es) m, zoco (es) m (Morocco)
• Swahili: soko (sw)
• Swedish: marknad (sv) c
• Tabasaran: базар (bazar)
• Tagalog: kabanata
• Tajik: бозор (tg) (bozor)
• Tamil: சந்தை (ta) (cantai), சாற்று (ta) (cāṟṟu)
• Tatar: базар (tt) (bazar)
• Telugu: విపణి (te) (vipaṇi), బజారు (bajāru)
• Tetum: basar
• Thai: ตลาด (th) (dtà-làat)
• Tibetan: ཁྲོམ (khrom)
• Tigrinya: ዕዳጋ (ʿədaga), ሹቕ (šux̣)
• Tok Pisin: bungples
• Tumbuka: musika
• Turkish: pazar (tr), çarşı (tr)
• Turkmen: bazar (tk)
• Tuvan: базар (bazar), рынок (rınok)
• Ukrainian: ри́нок (uk) m (rýnok), база́р (uk) m (bazár)
• Urdu: بازار m (bāzār), مَنْڈی (ur) f (manḍī), مارْکیٹ m (mārkeṭ)
• Uyghur: بازار (ug) (bazar)
• Uzbek: bozor (uz)
• Venetan: marcà (vec) m, mercà m
• Vietnamese: chợ (vi)
• Waray-Waray: merkado
• West Frisian: merk n
• Western Cham: pasa
• White Hmong: khw
• Wolof: marse
• Yagnobi: бозор (bozor)
• Yakut: рынок (rınok), баһаар (bahaar)
• Yiddish: מאַרק m (mark)
• Zazaki: suke (diq) f
• Zhuang: hawciengz, sicangz

group of potential customers

• Armenian: շուկա (hy) (šuka)
• Azerbaijani: bazar (az)
• Bavarian: Morkt
• Catalan: mercat (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 市場 / 市场 (si⁵ coeng⁴)

  Mandarin: 市場 / 市场 (zh) (shìchǎng)

• Czech: trh (cs) m
• Danish: marked (da) n, målgruppe c
• Dutch: markt (nl) m, afzetmarkt (nl) m
• Finnish: markkina (fi)
• French: marché (fr) m
• German: Markt (de) m
• Greek: αγορά (el) f (agorá)
• Hebrew: שׁוּק (he) m (shuk)
• Hungarian: piac (hu), vevőkör (hu)
• Irish: margadh m
• Japanese: 市場 (ja) (しじょう, shijō), マーケット (ja) (māketto)
• Kazakh: нарық (naryq)
• Korean: 시장(市場) (ko) (sijang), 마켓 (ko) (maket)
• Lithuanian: rinka (lt) f
• Low German:

  German Low German: Markt (nds) m or n

• Macedonian: пазар (mk) m (pazar)
• Malay: pasaran (ms)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: marked (no) n

• Portuguese: mercado (pt) m
• Russian: ры́нок (ru) m (rýnok)
• Scottish Gaelic: margaid f, margadh m, fèill f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: trgovac (sh) m, trgovnica f

• Swahili: soko (sw)
• Turkish: piyasa (tr)
• Vietnamese: thị trường

physical store

• Esperanto: vendejo

geographical area where a commercial demand exists

• Armenian: շուկա (hy) (šuka)
• Catalan: mercat (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 市場 / 市场 (si⁵ coeng⁴)

  Mandarin: 市場 / 市场 (zh) (shìchǎng)

• Czech: trh (cs) m
• Danish: marked (da) n
• Dutch: markt (nl) m, afzetmarkt (nl) m, afzetgebied (nl) n
• Finnish: markkina-alue (fi), markkina (fi)
• French: marché (fr) m
• Greek: αγορά (el) f (agorá)
• Hungarian: piac (hu)
• Japanese: 市場 (ja) (しじょう, shijō), マーケット (ja) (māketto)
• Korean: 시장(市場) (ko) (sijang), 마켓 (ko) (maket)
• Latvian: tirgus (lv) m
• Lithuanian: rinka (lt) f
• Macedonian: па́зар (mk) m (pázar)
• Polish: rynek (pl) m
• Portuguese: mercado (pt) m
• Russian: ры́нок (ru) m (rýnok)
• Scottish Gaelic: margaid f, margadh m, fèill f
• Swahili: soko (sw)
• Swedish: marknad (sv) c
• Vietnamese: thị trường

formally organized system of trading in specified goods or effects

• Bashkir: баҙар (baźar)
• Bulgarian: търгови́я (bg) f (tǎrgovíja)
• Catalan: mercat (ca) m
• Dutch: markt (nl) m, beurs (nl)
• Esperanto: merkato
• Finnish: pörssi (fi), markkinat (fi) pl, markkinapaikka
• French: marché (fr) m
• Greek: αγορά (el) f (agorá)
• Hungarian: piac (hu)
• Macedonian: па́зар (mk) m (pázar)
• Malay: pasaran (ms)
• Polish: rynek (pl) m
• Russian: ры́нок (ru) m (rýnok), торго́вля (ru) f (torgóvlja), торг (ru) m (torg), торги́ (ru) m pl (torgí)
• Scottish Gaelic: margaid f, margadh m
• Swahili: soko (sw)
• Swedish: marknad (sv) c
• Tamil: சந்தை (ta) (cantai)
• Vietnamese: thị trường

total sum of trading

• Bavarian: Morkt
• Catalan: mercat (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 市場 / 市场 (zh) (shìchǎng)

• Czech: trh (cs) m
• Danish: handel (da) c
• Finnish: markkinat (fi) pl
• French: marché (fr) m
• German: Markt (de) m
• Greek: αγορά (el) f (agorá)
• Irish: margadh m
• Japanese: 市場 (ja) (しじょう, shijō)
• Low German:

  German Low German: Markt (nds) m or n

• Macedonian: трговија f (trgovija), пазар (mk) m (pazar)
• Polish: rynek (pl) m
• Portuguese: compra (pt) f
• Russian: торго́вля (ru) f (torgóvlja)
• Scottish Gaelic: margaid f, margadh m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: trgovina (sh) f

• Sicilian: mircatu (scn) m
• Swahili: soko (sw)

used attributively

• Armenian: շուկայական (hy) (šukayakan)
• Belarusian: база́рны (bazárny), ры́начны (rýnačny)
• Bulgarian: паза́рен (bg) (pazáren)
• Czech: tržní (cs)
• Danish: markeds-
• Dutch: markt-
• Finnish: markkina- (fi)
• French: du marché
• German: Markt-
• Interlingua: del mercato
• Low German:

  German Low German: Markt-

• Macedonian: пазарен (pazaren)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: markeds- (no)

• Portuguese: de mercado
• Russian: ры́ночный (ru) (rýnočnyj)
• Sicilian: dû mircatu m, di lu mircatu m
• Spanish: del mercado
• Swahili: soko (sw)
• Swedish: marknads-
• Volapük: maketik

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Albanian: ^{(please verify)} pazar (sq) m, ^{(please verify)} treg (sq) m
• Arabic: ^{(please verify)} سُوق (ar) f (sūq)
• Breton: ^{(please verify)} marc'had (br) m, ^{(please verify)} marc'hadoù (br) pl, ^{(please verify)} koc'hu (br) m
• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} markt (nl) c, ^{(please verify)} marktplein (nl) n
• Hungarian: ^{(please verify)} tőzsde (hu)
• Icelandic: ^{(please verify)} markaður (is) m
• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} pasar (id)
• Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} mercato (ia)
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} mercato (it) m
• Kannada: ^{(please verify)} ಮಾರುಕಟ್ಟೆ (kn) (mārukaṭṭe), ^{(please verify)} ಮಾರುವ (māruva)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ^{(please verify)} بازار (bazar)

  Northern Kurdish: ^{(please verify)} bazar (ku)

• Latin: ^{(please verify)} macellum n, ^{(please verify)} forum (la) n
• Lithuanian: ^{(please verify)} turgus (lt) m
• Macedonian: ^{(please verify)} пазар (mk) m (pazar)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ^{(please verify)} marked (no) n, ^{(please verify)} torv n

• Old High German: ^{(please verify)} marchat m
• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} târg (ro) n, ^{(please verify)} piață (ro) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ^{(please verify)} трг m

  Roman: ^{(please verify)} tržište (sh) n, ^{(please verify)} buvljak (sh) m, ^{(please verify)} trg (sh) m

• Slovak: ^{(please verify)} trh m
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} mercado (es) m
• Swahili: ^{(please verify)} soko (sw)
• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} marknad (sv) c, ^{(please verify)} torg (sv) n
• Tajik: (bozor) ^{(please verify)} бозор (tg) (bozor)
• Telugu: ^{(please verify)} అంగడి (te) (aṅgaḍi), ^{(please verify)} సంత (te) (santa), ^{(please verify)} విఫణి (viphaṇi)
• Tetum: ^{(please verify)} merkadu, ^{(please verify)} basar
• Turkish: ^{(please verify)} çarşı (tr)
• Volapük: ^{(please verify)} maket (vo)
• Welsh: ^{(please verify)} marchnad f

Verb

market (third-person singular simple present markets, present participle marketing, simple past and past participle marketed)

1. (transitive) To make (products or services) available for sale and promote them.

   We plan to market an ecology model by next quarter.

2. (transitive) To sell.

   We marketed more this quarter already than all last year!

3. (intransitive) To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods.
4. (intransitive) To shop in a market; to attend a market.
   • 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 201:

     We did a little shopping; but I cannot remember much of the town. It was Saturday night, and all Perth was marketing.

Derived terms

• marketeer

Related terms

• marketer
• marketing campaign

Translations

to make available and promote

• Czech: uvést na trh, nabízet (cs)
• Danish: markedsføre
• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} op de markt brengen, ^{(please verify)} commercialiseren (nl), ^{(please verify)} vermarkten
• Finnish: markkinoida (fi)
• French: commercialiser (fr)
• Galician: comercializar
• German: vermarkten (de)
• Greek: εμπορεύομαι (el) (emporévomai), πωλώ (el) (poló)
• Indonesian: memasarkan (id)
• Interlingua: poner a mercato
• Irish: margaigh
• Malay: memasarkan
• Norman: markéter
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: markedsføre

• Portuguese: mercar (pt), marquetear (pt)
• Spanish: poner al mercado, comercializar (es), marketear, marketinear (Bolivia)
• Swahili: soko (sw)
• Turkish: pazarlamak (tr), piyasaya çıkarmak, piyasaya sürmek (tr), satışa çıkarmak (tr)
• Volapük: maketön (vo)

to sell — see sell

References

• “market”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• market in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “market”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑrket/, [ˈmɑ̝rk̟e̞t̪]
• Rhymes: -ɑrket
• Syllabification^(key): mar‧ket
• Hyphenation^(key): mar‧ket

Noun

market

1. Alternative form of marketti

Declension

Inflection of market (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		market	marketit
genitive		marketin	marketien
partitive		marketia	marketeja
illative		marketiin	marketeihin
		singular	plural
nominative		market	marketit
accusative	nom.	market	marketit
	gen.	marketin
genitive		marketin	marketien
partitive		marketia	marketeja
inessive		marketissa	marketeissa
elative		marketista	marketeista
illative		marketiin	marketeihin
adessive		marketilla	marketeilla
ablative		marketilta	marketeilta
allative		marketille	marketeille
essive		marketina	marketeina
translative		marketiksi	marketeiksi
abessive		marketitta	marketeitta
instructive		—	marketein
comitative		See the possessive forms below.

Possessive forms of market (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative marketini marketini accusative nom. marketini marketini gen. marketini genitive marketini marketieni partitive marketiani marketejani inessive marketissani marketeissani elative marketistani marketeistani illative marketiini marketeihini adessive marketillani marketeillani ablative marketiltani marketeiltani allative marketilleni marketeilleni essive marketinani marketeinani translative marketikseni marketeikseni abessive marketittani marketeittani instructive — — comitative — marketeineni second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative marketisi marketisi accusative nom. marketisi marketisi gen. marketisi genitive marketisi marketiesi partitive marketiasi marketejasi inessive marketissasi marketeissasi elative marketistasi marketeistasi illative marketiisi marketeihisi adessive marketillasi marketeillasi ablative marketiltasi marketeiltasi allative marketillesi marketeillesi essive marketinasi marketeinasi translative marketiksesi marketeiksesi abessive marketittasi marketeittasi instructive — — comitative — marketeinesi first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative marketimme marketimme accusative nom. marketimme marketimme gen. marketimme genitive marketimme marketiemme partitive marketiamme marketejamme inessive marketissamme marketeissamme elative marketistamme marketeistamme illative marketiimme marketeihimme adessive marketillamme marketeillamme ablative marketiltamme marketeiltamme allative marketillemme marketeillemme essive marketinamme marketeinamme translative marketiksemme marketeiksemme abessive marketittamme marketeittamme instructive — — comitative — marketeinemme second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative marketinne marketinne accusative nom. marketinne marketinne gen. marketinne genitive marketinne marketienne partitive marketianne marketejanne inessive marketissanne marketeissanne elative marketistanne marketeistanne illative marketiinne marketeihinne adessive marketillanne marketeillanne ablative marketiltanne marketeiltanne allative marketillenne marketeillenne essive marketinanne marketeinanne translative marketiksenne marketeiksenne abessive marketittanne marketeittanne instructive — — comitative — marketeinenne third-person possessor singular plural nominative marketinsa marketinsa accusative nom. marketinsa marketinsa gen. marketinsa genitive marketinsa marketiensa partitive marketiaan marketiansa marketejaan marketejansa inessive marketissaan marketissansa marketeissaan marketeissansa elative marketistaan marketistansa marketeistaan marketeistansa illative marketiinsa marketeihinsa adessive marketillaan marketillansa marketeillaan marketeillansa ablative marketiltaan marketiltansa marketeiltaan marketeiltansa allative marketilleen marketillensa marketeilleen marketeillensa essive marketinaan marketinansa marketeinaan marketeinansa translative marketikseen marketiksensa marketeikseen marketeiksensa abessive marketittaan marketittansa marketeittaan marketeittansa instructive — — comitative — marketeineen marketeinensa

Further reading

• “market”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

Anagrams

• kermat

Middle English

Alternative forms

• marcat, markat, marked, marketh
• markete, markett, markette, markyth, mercatt, merket, merketh, merkett (Late Middle English)

Etymology

From late Old English market (“market”), from Old Northern French markiet (Old French marchié), Old Saxon markat, and/or Old Norse markaðr; all ultimately from Vulgar Latin marcātus, from classical Latin mercātus (“trade, market”).

Variants ending /t/ are from either Old Saxon or Old Picard, while those ending in /θ/ are from other varieties of Old Northern French (e.g. Walloon).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /marˈkeːt/, /ˈmarkat/, /ˈmarkɛt/
• (ending in /θ/) IPA^(key): /marˈkɛːθ/, /ˈmarkɛθ/

Noun

market (plural marketes, dative markete)

1. A market; (periodic public assembly for buying or selling).
2. A marketplace; a square for holding markets.
3. (rare) A market town; a town where markets are held.
4. (rare) Trade, interchange, interaction.

Descendants

• English: market (see there for further descendants)
• Middle Scots: market, mercat
  • Scots: market
• Yola: maarkeet, markeat, markeate

Old English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mercātus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑr.ket/, [ˈmɑrˠ.ket]

Noun

market m

1. market

Descendants

• Middle English: market, marcat, markat, marked, marketh, markete, markett, markette, markyth, mercatt, merket, merketh, merkett (Late Middle English)
  • English: market (see there for further descendants)
  • Middle Scots: market, mercat
    • Scots: market
  • Yola: maarkeet, markeat, markeate

Old French

Alternative forms

• markiet

Etymology

See marchié.

Noun

market oblique singular, m (oblique plural markés, nominative singular markés, nominative plural market)

1. (Old Northern French) market; venue where goods are bought and sold

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English market, from Middle English market, from late Old English market and Anglo-Norman markiet, from Latin mercātus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmar.kɛt/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -arkɛt
• Syllabification: mar‧ket

Noun

market m inan

1. market (grocery store)

Declension

Declension of market

	singular	plural
nominative	market	markety
genitive	marketu	marketów
dative	marketowi	marketom
accusative	market	markety
instrumental	marketem	marketami
locative	markecie	marketach
vocative	markecie	markety

Further reading

• market in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• market in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from English market.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɑɾ.cet/

Noun

market (definite accusative marketi, plural marketler)

1. market

Declension

Declension of market

singular plural nominative market marketler definite accusative marketi marketleri dative markete marketlere locative markette marketlerde ablative marketten marketlerden genitive marketin marketlerin Possessive forms nominative singular plural 1st singular marketim marketlerim 2nd singular marketin marketlerin 3rd singular marketi marketleri 1st plural marketimiz marketlerimiz 2nd plural marketiniz marketleriniz 3rd plural marketleri marketleri definite accusative singular plural 1st singular marketimi marketlerimi 2nd singular marketini marketlerini 3rd singular marketini marketlerini 1st plural marketimizi marketlerimizi 2nd plural marketinizi marketlerinizi 3rd plural marketlerini marketlerini dative singular plural 1st singular marketime marketlerime 2nd singular marketine marketlerine 3rd singular marketine marketlerine 1st plural marketimize marketlerimize 2nd plural marketinize marketlerinize 3rd plural marketlerine marketlerine locative singular plural 1st singular marketimde marketlerimde 2nd singular marketinde marketlerinde 3rd singular marketinde marketlerinde 1st plural marketimizde marketlerimizde 2nd plural marketinizde marketlerinizde 3rd plural marketlerinde marketlerinde ablative singular plural 1st singular marketimden marketlerimden 2nd singular marketinden marketlerinden 3rd singular marketinden marketlerinden 1st plural marketimizden marketlerimizden 2nd plural marketinizden marketlerinizden 3rd plural marketlerinden marketlerinden genitive singular plural 1st singular marketimin marketlerimin 2nd singular marketinin marketlerinin 3rd singular marketinin marketlerinin 1st plural marketimizin marketlerimizin 2nd plural marketinizin marketlerinizin 3rd plural marketlerinin marketlerinin