A Moorish Bazaar

Women purchasing copper utensils in a bazaar in the Medieval India.

Mozaffarieh: An alley in Tabriz Bazaar devoted to carpet selling.

Troopers in the Bazaar in Medieval India.

An example of a historical Bazaar with mountains in the backdrop.

Vakil Bazaar as seen by Jane Dieulafoy in 1881

A bazaar (from Persian بازار (bāzār), meaning "market"; from Middle Persian بهاچار (bahā-chār), meaning "place of prices")^[1] is a permanent enclosed merchandising area, marketplace, or street of shops where goods and services are exchanged or sold. (A souq, by contrast, is an open-air marketplace or commercial quarter.) The term is sometimes also used to refer to the "network of merchants, bankers and craftsmen" who work that area.^[2] Although the current meaning of the word is believed to have originated in Persia, its use has spread and now has been accepted into the vernacular in countries around the world.^[3] The rise of large bazaars and stock trading centers in the Muslim World allowed the creation of new capitals and eventually new empires. New and wealthy cities such as Isfahan, Golconda, Samarkand, Cairo, Baghdad, and Timbuktu were founded along trade routes and bazaars.^[4]

Its name in other languages includes Arabic and Urdu: بازار, Albanian, Serbian and Turkish: pazar, Bengali: বাজার, Bulgarian and Macedonian: пазар, Cypriot Greek: pantopoula,^[5] Greek: παζάρι (pazari), Hindi: बज़ार्, Hungarian: vásár (Persian influence around the 7th-8th century, meaning regular market, but also special occasion markets, such as Karácsonyi Vásár (Christmas Market)) and bazár (Turkish influence around the 16th-17th century, meaning Oriental-style market or shop), Indonesian and Malay: pasar, Polish: bazar, Russian: базар and Uzbek: bozor.

In North America and the United Kingdom, the term can be used as a synonym for a "rummage sale", to describe charity fundraising events held by churches or other community organizations, in which donated used goods (such as books, clothes, and household items) are sold for low prices, or else the goods may be new and handcrafted (or home-baked), as at a church's Christmas bazaar.

The bazaar has been the subject of many books, including: The Persian Bazaar: Veiled Space of Desire (Mage Publications) by Mehdi Khansari and The Morphology of the Persian Bazaar (Agah Publications) by Azita Rajabi.

Examples [link]

[edit] Australia

Ingleburn Bazaar (held annually during the Ingleburn Festival).

[edit] Afghanistan

• Shah Bazaar, Kandahar
• Shor Bazaar, Kabul
• Grand Bazaar, Herat
• Mazari Bazaar, Mazari Sharif

[edit] Azerbaijan

• Teze Bazar, Baku
• 8 Kilometr Bazaar, Baku
• Yashil Bazar, Baku
• Yeni Bazar, Shaki, Azerbaijan

[edit] Bangladesh

• Bhairab Bazaar, Kishoreganj District
• Badshahi Chawk Bazaar, Dhaka.
• Dasherjangal Bazaar, Shariatpur District
• Kachukhet Bazaar, Dhaka.
• Karwan Bazaar, Dhaka.
• Kazir Dewri, Chittagong
• Shanti Nagar Bazaar, Dhaka.
• New Market Kacha Bazaar, Dhaka.
• Malibagh Bazaar, Dhaka.
• Banani Bazaar, Dhaka.
• Khilkhet Kacha Bazaar, Dhaka
• Mohakhali Bazaar, Dhaka..

[edit] Bosnia and Herzegovina

• Baščaršija, Sarajevo
• Kujundžiluk, Mostar

[edit] China

• Grand Bazaar, Xinjiang

[edit] Egypt

• Khan el-Khalili, Cairo

[edit] India

Laad Bazaar near Charminar, Hyderabad, India

• Laad Bazaar, Hyderabad
• Sultan Bazar, Hyderabad
• Begum Bazar, Hyderabad
• Shahran Bazaar, Hyderabad
• Khan Market, Delhi
• Bhindi Bazaar, South Mumbai
• Chandni Chowk, Delhi
• Chor Bazaar, Mumbai
• Zaveri Bazaar, Mumbai
• Pondy Bazaar, Chennai
• Burma Bazaar, Chennai
• Bapu Bazaar, Jaipur
• Sadar Bazaar, Agra
• Gandhi Bazaar, Bengaluru
• Gole Bazaar, Sambalpur
• Bari Bazaar, Munger

There are many more in India

[edit] Iran

• Tabriz Bazaar, Tabriz
• Kerman Bazaar, Kerman
• Kermanshah Bazaar, Kermanshah
• Vakil Bazaar, Shiraz
• Kashan Bazaar, Kashan
• Tehran Bazaar, Tehran
• Kashan Bazaar, Kashan
• Sanandaj Bazaar, Sanandaj
• Isfahan Bazaar, Isfahan
• Qaisarieh Bazar, Isfahan

[edit] Kazakhstan

• Kok Bazaar, Almaty
• Central Bazaar, Aktobe

[edit] Kyrgyzstan

• Dordoy Bazaar, Bishkek

[edit] Macedonia

• Old Bazaar, Bitola
• Old Bazaar, Prilep
• Old Bazaar, Skopje
• Old Bazaar, Tetovo

[edit] Pakistan

• Anarkali Bazaar, Lahore
• Urdu Bazaar, Lahore
• Mochi Gate Bazaars, Walled City of Lahore
• Qissa Khawani Bazaar, Peshawar
• Moti Bazaar, Rawalpindi
• Chowk Bazaar, Multan
• Urdu Bazaar, Multan
• Urdu Bazaar, Rawalpindi
• Urdu Bazaar, Sargodha
• Raja Bazaar, Rawalpindi
• Sarafa Bazaar, Rawalpindi

[edit] Sri Lanka

• Madawala Bazaar

[edit] Syria

• Souq Al hamdiin Damascus(also the first mall ever built)
• souq atwail in Damascus
• Souq Al buzria in Damascus
• Mathaf Al sulimani in Damascus
• Souq Al-Attareen (Permufers Souq) in Aleppo
• Souq Khan Al-Nahhaseen (Coopery Souq) in Aleppo
• Souq Al-Haddadeen (Balcksmiths' Souq) in Aleppo
• Suq Al-Saboun (Soap Souq) in Aleppo
• Suq Al-Atiq (the Old Souq) in Aleppo
• Al-Suweiqa (Suweiqa means small suq in Arabic) in Aleppo
• Suq Al-Hokedun (Hokedun means the spiritual house in Armenian) in Aleppo

[edit] Turkey

• Arasta Bazaar, Istanbul
• Grand Bazaar, Istanbul
• Spice_Bazaar, Istanbul
• Kemeraltı, İzmir
• Mahmutpaşa Bazaar, Istanbul
• Silk Bazaar, Bursa
• Uzun Carsi, (The Long Bazaar), Bursa
• Acik Carsi, (The Openair Bazaar), Bursa

Gallery [link]

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  A Turkish Bazaar, 1854

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  Orange Market at Blidahm, Algeria, 1898

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  Clothes market in Downtown Cairo

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  Market in Khotan, Chinese Turkestan

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  Rug Bazaar of Tabriz

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  Rangli bazaar, Tabriz

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  Entrance to the Bazaar of Isfahan, off of Naqsh-e Jahan Square

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  Oranges in Peshawar, Pakistan

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  Produce on display in Bangladesh

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  Main Bazaar in Paharganj, Central Delhi

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  Grand Bazaar in Tehran, Iran

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  An Afghan market

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  Mahmutpaşa Bazaar, Istanbul

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  Main Bazaar in Delhi

See also [link]

• Gold Souq
• Meena Bazaar
• Novi Pazar (a Serbian town name meaning "New Bazaar")
• Pasar malam
• Souq
• Tabriz Bazaar (Largest covered bazar in the world)
• Wet market

References [link]

1. ^ "bazaar". https://dictionary.reference.com/browse/bazaar. Retrieved 2007-02-17. 
2. ^ ("the Bazaar (the complex network of merchants, bankers and craftsmen who make up the heart of the traditional Islamic city)") from Introduction to Shi'i Islam, Momen, Moojan, (Yale University Press, 1985), p.200]
3. ^ "BAZAAR s. H. &c. From P. bāzār, a permanent market or street of shops.". University of Chicago. https://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.0:1:171.hobson. Retrieved 2007-07-19. 
4. ^ [1]^{[dead link]}
5. ^ Christou, Jean, "Linguist makes the island a little smaller for all", Cyprus Mail, May 27, 2006

External links [link]

Look up bazaar in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Bazaars

• Iran Chamber Society on Architecture of the Bazaar at Isfahan
• 1911 Britannica article "Bazaar"