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Share This ba·zaar Audio Help / bəˈzɑr / Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation [ buh -zahr ] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation –noun 1. a marketplace or shopping quarter, esp. one in the Middle East.
2. a sale of miscellaneous contributed articles to benefit some charity, cause, organization, etc.
3. a store in which many kinds of goods are offered for sale; department store.
Also, ba·zar.
[Origin:
1590–1600; earlier
bazarro < It ≪ Pers
bāzār market
]
—Synonyms 1 .
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American Heritage Dictionary -
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A market consisting of a street lined with shops and stalls, especially one in the Middle East.
A shop or a part of a store in which miscellaneous articles are sold.
A fair or sale at which miscellaneous articles are sold, often for charitable purposes.
bazarro and Urdu bāzār , both from Persian; see wes- 3 in Indo-European roots.]
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Online Etymology Dictionary -
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1588, from It. bazarra, from Pers. bazar (Pahlavi vacar ) "a market."
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WordNet -
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Share This bazaar noun 1. a shop where a variety of goods are sold 2. a street of small shops (especially in Orient) 3. a sale of miscellany; often for charity; "the church bazaar"
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Share This bazaar 1 [bəˈzaː] noun
an Eastern market place
Arabic: سوق (في الشّرق) Chinese (Simplified): （东方国家的）市场 Chinese (Traditional): (東方國家的)市場 Czech: orientální trh Danish: basar Dutch: bazaar Estonian: idamaine turg Finnish: basaari French: bazar German: der Basar Greek: παζάρι Hungarian: bazár Icelandic: basar Indonesian: pasar Italian: bazar
Japanese: 市場 Korean: (중동의) 시장 Latvian: (Austrumu) tirgus Lithuanian: rytietiškas turgus Norwegian: basar, marked Polish: bazar Portuguese (Brazil): bazar Portuguese (Portugal): mercado Romanian: bazar Russian: (восточный) базар Slovak: bazár Slovenian: bazar Spanish: bazar Swedish: basar Turkish: pazar, çarşı
bazaar 2 [bəˈzaː] noun
a sale of goods of various kinds,
especially home-made or second-hand
Arabic: سوق أدوات يَدَوِيّه أو رَخيصَه) Chinese (Simplified): 集市 Chinese (Traditional): 集市 Czech: bazar Danish: loppemarked; basar Dutch: fancy-fair Estonian: näitemüük Finnish: myyjäiset French: vente de charité German: der Wohltätigkeitsbasar Greek: παζάρι (για φιλανθρωπικούς σκοπούς) Hungarian: bazár Icelandic: basar, (flóa)markaður Indonesian: pasar amal Italian: vendita di beneficenza
Japanese: バザー Korean: 바자 Latvian: labdarības tirdziņš Lithuanian: mugė Norwegian: basar; loppemarked Polish: kiermasz Portuguese (Brazil): bazar Portuguese (Portugal): quermesse Romanian: vânzare de lucruri uzate, *second hand Russian: торговые ряды Slovak: bazár, blší trh Slovenian: prodaja v dobrodelne namene Spanish: encante, mercado de segunda mano Swedish: basar, loppmarknad Turkish: kermes
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary, © 2000-2006 K Dictionaries Ltd.
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n.,adj. In 1997, after meditatating on the success of
Linux for three years, the Jargon File's own editor ESR wrote an analytical paper on hacker culture and development models titled The Cathedral and the Bazaar (http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/). The main argument of the paper was that
Brooks's Law is not the whole story; given the right social machinery, debugging can be efficiently parallelized across large numbers of programmers. The title metaphor caught on (see also
cathedral ), and the style of development typical in the Linux community is now often referred to as the bazaar mode. Its characteristics include releasing code early and often, and actively seeking the largest possible pool of peer reviewers.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary -
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Ba*zaar"\ Bazar \Ba*zar"\(b[.a]*z[aum]r"), n. [Per. b[=a]zar market.]
1. In the East, an exchange, marketplace, or assemblage of shops where goods are exposed for sale.
2. A spacious hall or suite of rooms for the sale of goods, as at a fair.
3. A fair for the sale of fancy wares, toys, etc., commonly for a charitable objects. --Macaulay.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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