bazaar
pronunciation
How to pronounce bazaar in British English:
UK [bəˈzɑ:(r)]
How to pronounce bazaar in American English:
US [bəˈzɑr]
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- Noun:
- a shop where a variety of goods are sold
- a street of small shops (especially in Orient)
- a sale of miscellany; often for charity
Word Origin
- bazaar
- bazaar: [16] Bazaar is a word of Persian origin; it comes from Persian bāzār ‘market’ (whose ultimate source was a prehistoric Old Persian *abēcharish), and reached English via Turkish and Italian (whence the early English form bazarro). Many fanciful spellings competed in 16th- and 17th-century English, including buzzard.
- bazaar (n.)
- 1580s, from Italian bazarra, ultimately from Persian bazar (Pahlavi vacar) "a market."
Example
- 1. Shaxi sideng : the only surviving bazaar .
- 2. An empty bazaar bordered the boulevard that emanated from the temple .
- 3. By the early 1980s , the city had become an international banking bazaar .
- 4. Dozens of open-air restaurants serve halal fare next to the main bazaar .
- 5. Content providers and cable operators may try to steer viewers to their own websites , like hucksters in a bazaar .