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ba⋅zaar

  [buh-zahr]
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–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. market, mart, exchange.
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ba·zaar also ba·zar   (bə-zär')   
n.  

  1. A market consisting of a street lined with shops and stalls, especially one in the Middle East.

  2. A shop or a part of a store in which miscellaneous articles are sold.

  3. A fair or sale at which miscellaneous articles are sold, often for charitable purposes.


[Italian bazarro and Urdu bāzār, both from Persian; see wes-3 in Indo-European roots.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

bazaar 
1588, from It. bazarra, from Pers. bazar (Pahlavi vacar) "a market."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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bazaar

originally, a public market district of a Persian town. From Persia the term spread to Arabia (the Arabic word suq is synonymous), Turkey, and North Africa. In India it came to be applied to a single shop, and in current English usage it is applied both to a single shop or concession selling miscellaneous articles and to a fair at which such miscellany is sold, sometimes for charity

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