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Bazaar
A bazaar is a market, often covered, typically found in areas of Muslim culture. The word derives from the Persian bāzār, whose etymology goes back to the Pahlavi word baha-char meaning "the place of prices".
Examples include:
See also
- The Cathedral and the Bazaar, an essay on the workings of open-source development. "The bazaar" is a metaphor for decentralized collaboration.
- Denpasar, capital of Bali, Indonesia.
- Harper's Bazaar
- Namche Bazaar, Nepal
- Melayu Pasar or "Bazaar Malay" was a trade pidgin that was one of the sources of the standard Malay and Indonesian languages.
- A suq is the commercial quarter of an Arab city.
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