piyasa

Piyasa is a Turkish noun meaning market or marketplace. In everyday Turkish, it can refer to a place where goods are bought and sold, such as a street market or bazaar, but it is more commonly used to denote the economic market as a whole.

Examples include piyasa fiyatları (market prices), piyasa değeri (market value), piyasa koşulları (market conditions), piyasa yapısı (market structure), and piyasa raporları (market reports). The term is widely used in business, journalism, and policy discussions.

In economics, piyasa denotes the system or arena in which supply and demand determine prices, rather than the physical location. It can refer to specific markets, such as the money market (para piyasası) or the goods market (mal piyasası), and to sector-specific contexts like piyasa faizi (market interest rate) or piyasa kredileri (market loans).

Etymology: The exact origin is not definitively established, but piyasa is a long-established Turkish term that appeared in Ottoman Turkish and has since become part of modern Turkish economic vocabulary. It is generally considered a loanword or a derivative refined within Turkish rather than a native root.

See also: market economy, market value, price, bazaar, pazar.