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Quick edit. As I posted this I thought Turkish didn't sound right. According to the online AHD, bazaar is from the PersianHow bazaar, how bazaar! 
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Yeah, you're right, Bingley, I'm pretty sure it's pazar in Turkish but got changed slightly on its trip into English. Like kebap became kebob or kebab, depending on your preference. That word also does not follow the rules of vowel harmony so I suspect it may be a Persian import as well.
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Not, I hasten to add, that I know any Turkish, although I have heard about this vowel harmony thingy -- a trifle vague on how it actually works though.
I was just going by who was likely to have brought the word to Indonesia, and thought it was most likely to be Indian traders, who at the appropriate dates would have been more likely to have got the word from Persian than Turkish.
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