बाज़ीगर

Borrowed from Classical Persian بازیگر (bāzīgar). First attested as Old Hindi बाजीगर (bājīgara). By surface analysis, बाज़ी (bāzī) +‎ -गर (-gar). Compare Assamese বাজিকৰ (bazikor), Bengali বাজিগর (bajigor), Gujarati બાજીગર (bājīgar), Kannada ಬಾಜಿಗಾರ (bājigāra), Odia ବାଜିଗର (bajigôrô), Punjabi ਬਾਜ਼ੀਗਰ (bāzīgar) / بازِی گَر (bāzī gar).

• (Delhi Hindi) IPA^(key): /bɑː.ziː.ɡəɾ/, [bäː.ziː.ɡɐɾ], /bɑː.d͡ʒiː.ɡəɾ/, [bäː.d͡ʒiː.ɡɐɾ]

बाज़ीगर • (bāzīgar) m (feminine बाज़ीगरनी, Urdu spelling بَازِیگََر)

1. juggler, magician, trickster

   Synonyms: जादूगर (jādūgar), ऐंद्रजालिक (aindrajālik)

• Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “बाजीगर”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi [Varanasi]: Nagari Pracarini Sabha, page 3443
• Platts, John T. (1884) “bāzī-garnī”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 122
• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “बाज़ीगर”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 721
• “बाज़ीगर”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.