bazaar

• bazar (obsolete)

From Middle French bazar or Italian bazar, from Ottoman Turkish بازار (bazar), from Persian بازار (bâzâr).

• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /bəˈzɐː/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /bəˈzɑː(ɹ)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /bəˈzɑɹ/

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
• Homophone: bizarre (weak vowel merger)

bazaar (plural bazaars)

1. A marketplace, particularly in the Middle East and South Asia, and often covered with shops and stalls.
2. A shop selling articles that are either exotic or eclectic.
3. A fair or temporary market, often for charity.
   • 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], “(please specify the page)”, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 129–130:

     ...quoting a paragraph from the Morning Post which announced the intention of Lady Anne Granard, with her beautiful daughters, to preside at one of the stalls, at a grand fancy bazaar, in Kemp Town, which was expected to be the gayest scene and the most splendid assemblage of royalty and nobility ever beheld in Brighton.

• baraza

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• IPA^(key): /baːˈzaːr/

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• Hyphenation: ba‧zaar
• Rhymes: -aːr

bazaar m (plural bazaars, diminutive bazaartje n)

1. bazaar, a marketplace
2. fair

bazaar

1. Nonstandard form of bazar.