# زقاق
## Arabic
### Etymology

With progressive dissimilation in voicedness (compare for this phenomenon in a like measure رُزْدَاق (ruzdāq) and قَتَاد (qatād)) from Aramaic 𐡔𐡒𐡒𐡀 / 𐡵𐡳𐡳𐡠 / שְׁקָקָא / ܫܩܳܩܳܐ (šəqāqā), from Akkadian 𒋢𒋡𒄣𒌑 (su-qa-qu-u₂ /⁠suqāqu⁠/), which is the diminutive of the same word as present in سُوق (sūq).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /zu.qaːq/
* Rhymes: -aːq

### Noun

زُقَاق • (zuqāq) m or f (plural أَزِقَّة (ʔaziqqa))
* alley, lane, corridor

#### Descendants

* Maltese: sqaq
* → Catalan: atzucac
* Kurdish:
    → Northern Kurdish: zikak
* → Persian: زقاق (zoqâq)
** → Ottoman Turkish: سوقاق (sokak), صوقاق (sokak)
*** Turkish: sokak
*** → Armenian: սոխախ (soxax)
*** → Albanian: sokak
*** → Aromanian: sucachie
*** → Bulgarian: сока́к (sokák)
*** → Greek: σοκάκι (sokáki)
*** → Macedonian: сокак (sokak)
*** → Mariupol Greek: суха́х (suxáx)
*** → Romanian: socac
*** → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: со̀ка̄к
    Latin script: sòkāk

### References

* Kaufman, Stephen A. (1974) The Akkadian Influences on Aramaic (The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago Assyriological Studies; 19)‎, Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, pages 93–94
* Lane, Edward William (1863) “زقاق”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, page 1238
* Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) “sucáḱé”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот [Turskite elementi vo aromanskiot]‎, put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 176

## Hijazi Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic زُقَاق (zuqāq).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /zu.ˈɡaːɡ/, [zʊ.ɡaːɡ]

### Noun

زقاق • (zugāg) m (plural أزقة (ʔazigga))
* alley
* alleyway

#### See also

* طرْقة (ṭurga, “corridor”)
* سيب (sīb, “hallway, corridor”)

## Old Anatolian Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Persian زقاق (zoqâq), from Arabic زُقَاق (zuqāq).

### Noun

زُقَاقْ (zoqāq)
* street, lane

#### Descendants

* Gagauz: sokak
* Ottoman Turkish: سوقاق (sokak), صوقاق (sokak)
** Turkish: sokak
** → Armenian: սոխախ (soxax)
** → Albanian: sokak
** → Aromanian: sucachie
** → Bulgarian: сока́к (sokák)
** → Greek: σοκάκι (sokáki)
** → Macedonian: сокак (sokak)
** → Mariupol Greek: суха́х (suxáx)
** → Romanian: socac
** → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: со̀ка̄к
    Latin script: sòkāk

### References

* ↑ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sokak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

## Persian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic زُقَاق (zuqāq).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [zu.ˈqɑːq]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [zʊ.qɑ́ːq]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [zʊ.qɑ́ːq]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [zʊ.qɑ́ːq]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [zu.qɔ́ːq]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [zo.ʁɒ́ːɢ̥]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [zu.qɔ́q]

### Noun

زقاق • (zoqâq)
* street
* lane

#### Synonyms

* خیابان
* کوچه

#### Descendants

* → Ottoman Turkish: سوقاق (sokak), صوقاق (sokak)
** Turkish: sokak
** → Armenian: սոխախ (soxax)
** → Albanian: sokak
** → Aromanian: sucachie
** → Bulgarian: сока́к (sokák)
** → Greek: σοκάκι (sokáki)
** → Macedonian: сокак (sokak)
** → Mariupol Greek: суха́х (suxáx)
** → Romanian: socac
** → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: со̀ка̄к
    Latin script: sòkāk