Bazaar

bazaar is an Persian word which can be also seen in other languages like Turkish: pazar and Persian: بازار. bazaar is an area that is always used for shopping. It can be a market place or a street of shops where things are exchanged or sold.

The word bazaar is from the Persian word bāzār, this word itself comes from the Pahlavi word baha-char (بهاچار), meaning "the place of prices".^[1] Although the meaning of the word "bazaar" started in Persia, it has spread and is now used in many countries around world.^[2]

The world's biggest bazaar is the Grand Bazaar, Tehran, other well-known ones are the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul, the Old Bazaar in Cairo, the Chandni Chowk in Delhi or the Anarkali Bazar in Lahore. Very often, banks, or moneylenders, cafes and mosques can also be found in a bazaar.

Bazaar Media

The Grand Bazaar in Istanbul, Turkey
Bazaar in Sanandaj, Iran
Le quartier commercial d'Amman bien achalandé
Shuk Mahane Yehuda, a popular shuk in Jerusalem, often simply called the Shuk (Script error: The function "langx" does not exist.)
Khan al-Mirjan in Baghdad (14th century), one of the oldest preserved urban commercial structures in the Islamic world
Al-Hamidiyah Souq in Damascus
The Old Bazaar of Pristina, Kosovo
Mule moving goods around in the car-free Medina quarter, Fes, Morocco
Khan el-Khalili, the central bazaar of Cairo (photo from 1880s)
A covered market street in the Bazaar of Tabriz