A market, or part of a market, in an Arab city.
[Arabic sūq, from Aramaic šuqā, street, market, from Akkadian sūqu, street, from sâqu, to be narrow.]
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A market, or part of a market, in an Arab city.
[Arabic sūq, from Aramaic šuqā, street, market, from Akkadian sūqu, street, from sâqu, to be narrow.]
The noun has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
an open-air market in an Arabian city
A souk (سوق, also sook, souq, or suq) is a highly fashioned caravan. In Modern Standard Arabic the term refers to markets in both the physical and abstract economic sense (e.g., an Arab would speak of the souq in the old city as well as the souq for oil, and would call the concept of the free market السوق الحرّ al-souq al-ḥorr).
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Nederlands (Dutch)
soek, Arabische markt
Deutsch (German)
n. - orientalischer Markt
Português (Portuguese)
n. - mercado em países árabes
Русский (Russian)
тупица, трус, корова, базар
Español (Spanish)
n. - mercado
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - marknad
中文(简体) (Chinese (Simplified))
露天市场
中文(繁體) (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 露天市場
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) سوق في ألدول ألاسلاميه
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