bajar

Borrowed from Persian بازار (bâzâr), see there for more. The original meaning was of a marketplace, but it has become city i.e. the place where the market is set up, synonymous sûk (“marketplace, souq”) is also sometimes used as such. For semantic development compare Zazaki şar ("people", originally meaning "city"), Mazanderani کلا (kelâ) ("people", originally meaning "castle"); all from what is set at the city centers or a population.

• IPA^(key): /bɑːˈʒɑːɾ/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːɾ

bajar m

1. city

• bajarî
• bajarvanî

• → Lishana Deni: באז׳ר (bāžər)

Inherited from Old Spanish baxar, from Vulgar Latin *bassiāre, from Late Latin bassus.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /baˈxaɾ/ [baˈxaɾ]

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ba‧jar

bajar (first-person singular present bajo, first-person singular preterite bajé, past participle bajado)

1. to go down, come down

   Antonym: subir

2. (reflexive) to get off, to get down, to climb down, to step down, to get out (e.g., of/from a platform or vehicle)

   Antonym: subir

   (Me) bajé del taxi.

   I got out of the taxi.

   (Se) bajaron del árbol.

   They climbed down the tree.

3. to descend
4. (reflexive) to go to a location that is less elevated, less inland, or more to the south
5. to lower, reduce, fall
6. to drop, lower, put down, turn down, move down (an object, the volume, etc.)

   ¡Baja la música!

   Turn down the music!

7. (computing) to download

   Synonym: descargar

   Antonym: subir

   Vete a mi portátil y baja los libros.

   Go on my laptop and download the books.

8. (computing, reflexive) to download (for one's own private use)

   Synonym: descargar

   Me estoy bajando libros para el avión.

   I'm downloading books for the plane.

9. to lose (e.g., weight)

   Bajaré de peso.

   I will lose weight.

10. to take down, bring down
11. to dim (the lights)
12. to let down (one's guard)
13. to wash down (accompany food)
14. (colloquial) to kill (a person)
15. (transitive, colloquial, El Salvador) to deceive and take advantage of (someone).

    Synonym: engañar

    Dejá de bajarte al chico.

    Stop deceiving the boy.

16. (transitive, colloquial, El Salvador) to steal.

    Synonym: robar

    Me bajaron diez dólares en la calle.

    Someone stole ten dollars from me on the street.

17. (transitive, colloquial, Mexico) to menstruate.

• “bajar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
• “bajar”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010

bajar

1. present indicative of baja

• bacar

Akin to Northern Kurdish bajar and Persian بازار (bâzâr).

bajar

1. city