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| Processed by: | richwarm (2024-02-11 09:07:54 UTC) |
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<< review queue entry 75641 - submitted by 'kbaiko' >> Actually more common than existing entries for bazaar Google: "芭莎": 6,270,000 results "巴扎": 3,710,000 results "巴刹": 3,410,000 results ---------------------------------- Editor: Thanks for looking further into the word. Here's what I found: The German word "Bazar" is an alternative spelling of German "Basar", which means "bazaar". It comes from Persian "bâzâr" via French "bazar". "Harper's Bazaar" was formerly "Harper's Bazar", as you note, its spelling modeled on that of "Der Bazar" but changed in November 1929* to "Harper's Bazaar", presumably to anglicize the name. * http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=83192 That's all interesting enough, but irrelevant to the question of whether 芭莎 is used as a common noun. So far there's little evidence that it is, but plenty of evidence that it's used in the names of business entities, notably 时尚芭莎. But that's the sort of thing we leave to Wikipedia unless it's a very notable Chinese entity. * * * I've been in contact with Pleco, and they intend to do what I suggested to them: offer a free dictionary based on the Chinese and English versions of Wikipedia, which would include entries that would look something like the following: 时尚芭莎 Harper's Bazaar Harper's Bazaar is an American monthly women's fashion magazine. It was first published in New York City on November 2, 1867, as the weekly Harper's Bazar. Harper's Bazaar is published by Hearst and considers itself to be the style resource for "women who are the first to buy the best, from casual to couture". Since its debut in 1867, as the U.S.'s first fashion magazine, its pages have been home to talent such as the founding editor, author and translator Mary Louise Booth, as well as numerous fashion editors, photographers, illustrators and writers. Harper's Bazaar has a targeted audience of women ranging from their twenties to sixties. Its goal is to influence readers in wanting to spend money on what they see in fashion magazines to feel and look their best. Harpers's Bazaar annual Icons Party where your favorite celebrities wear their best look. This event has become a staple in the fashion world. 芭莎明星慈善夜 Bazaar Stars Charity Night Bazaar Stars Charity Night is an annual fundraising gala hosted by Harper’s Bazaar China in China for Chinese celebrities who support charities. The event was founded at 2003 due to the outbreak of SARS upon Na Ying's suggestion and the fundraising event was continued every year ever since. Since 2014, the charity night has been a collaboration between Harper's Bazaar China and Zhejiang Television where the latter will broadcast the charity night on national television. In recent years, the event is divided into the auction segment and the donation segment with intervals of performances. Mike Love: "This makes a ton of sense; honestly we’ve seen a similar problem with new entry requests people submit to us, a huge portion of them are for proper nouns - pop star names, obscure geographic locations, etc. So it would nicely solve that problem - we’d simply tell people to add their requested word to Chinese Wikipedia and they could expect it to be covered in Pleco the next time we updated our copy of that database. So yes, you can rely on us to produce some sort of free Wikipedia-based Chinese-English database for Pleco once 4.0 is out." That was in reply to my suggestion: "I'm wondering whether you might consider not only offering Chinese Wikipedia, but also the title and introductory paragraph of the corresponding English Wikipedia entry, wherever such exists. [...] If we knew a resource like that was coming in the future, it would free up CC-CEDICT to focus more on linguistic issues and ignore most terms that belong more properly in an encyclopedia." I don't want to spend my time on the linguistically uninteresting task of manually compiling a few thousand names of businesses, events, books, products, athletes etc if there is a source already available that can provide millions of such names. |
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# + 芭莎 芭莎 [[ba1sha1]] /(loanword) bazaar/ |