سوق

العربية

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سوق¹

  • /suːq/
  • /suːʔ/ Egypt
  • /suːɡ/
  • /suːq/ Morocco

Where it comes from

From Aramaic שׁוּקָא / ܫܽܘܩܳܐ (šūqā’, “street, market”), from Akkadian 𒋻 (sūqum, “street”), from Akkadian 𒅆𒀀𒄣 (siāqum, “to become narrow”). Cognate to Hebrew שׁוּק (šūq).

noun سُوق · sūq · أَسْوَاق · السُّوق

  1. market فِي ٱلسُّوقِ، يُمْكِنُنَا شِرَاءُ ٱلْفَوَاكِهِ وَٱلْخَضْرَوَاتِ ٱلطَّازَجَةِ وَٱلْبَضَائِعِ ٱلْأُخْرَىٰ.

سوق²

  • /sawq/

noun سَوْق · sawq · السَّوْق · سَوْقٌ

  1. noun from verb verbal noun of سَاقَ (sāqa, “to drive, to conscript”) (form I)
  2. driving (of a car)
  3. draft, conscription
  4. mobilization

سوق³

  • /suːq/

noun سُوق · sūq

  1. plural plural of سَاق (sāq)

سوق⁴

  • /saw.wa.qa/

Where it comes from

Denominal verb from سُوق (sūq, “market, souq”).

verb سَوَّقَ · sawwaqa · يُسَوِّقُ · تَسْوِيق · مُسَوِّق

  1. to market

In English

  • market gathering for trading
  • souq a street market in the Arabic-speaking countries
  • bazaar marketplace

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@misc{micwyn_2026,
  title = {سوق},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ar/%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%82},
  urldate = {2026-11-07}
}

The meanings are in English: this language's words come from the English Wiktionary. From Wiktionary, the free dictionary, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Recordings from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own free license: Ar-سوق.ogg.