# سوق
## Arabic
### Etymology 1

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

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /suːq/
* Audio:(file)
** (Egypt) IPA: /suːʔ/
** (Kuwaiti) IPA: /suːɡ/
** (Morocco) IPA: /suːq/

#### Noun

سُوق • (sūq) f or m (plural أَسْوَاق (ʔaswāq))
* market
    فِي السُّوقِ، يُمْكِنُنَا شِرَاءُ الْفَوَاكِهِ وَالْخَضْرَوَاتِ الطَّازَجَةِ وَالْبَضَائِعِ الْأُخْرَى.fī s-sūqi, yumkinunā širāʔu l-fawākihi wālḵaḍrawāti ṭ-ṭāzajati wālbaḍāʔiʕi l-ʔuḵrā.At the market, we can buy fresh fruits, vegetables, and other goods.
** 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 25:20:وَمَا أَرْسَلْنَا قَبْلَكَ مِنَ ٱلْمُرْسَلِينَ إِلَّا إِنَّهُمْ لَيَأْكُلُونَ ٱلطَّعَامَ وَيَمْشُونَ فِي ٱلْأَسْوَاقِwamā ʔarsalnā qablaka mina l-mursalīna ʔillā ʔinnahum layaʔkulūna ṭ-ṭaʕāma wayamšūna fī l-ʔaswāqi(please add an English translation of this quotation)

##### Descendants

* Maltese: suq
* → Afrikaans: soek
* → Belarusian: сук (suk)
* → Bulgarian: сук (suk)
* → English: souq, souk, suq, sooq, sook, suk, sukh
* → French: souk
* → German: Souq
* → Greek: σουκ (souk)
* → Japanese: スーク (sūku)
* → Ottoman Turkish: سوق (suk)
** Turkish: suk
* → Persian: سوق (suq)
* → Portuguese: souq, souk, suque
* → Russian: сук (suk)
* → Somali: souq, sūqqa, sūūq
* → Spanish: zoco
** → Galician: zoco
* → Swahili: soko
* → Tajik: суқ (suq)
* → Ukrainian: сук (suk)
* ⇒ Arabic: السُّوق (as-sūq, “the market”)
** → Basque: azoka
** → Old Galician-Portuguese: açougue
*** Galician: azougue, alcouce
*** Portuguese: açougue

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sawq/

#### Noun

سَوْق • (sawq) m
* verbal noun of سَاقَ (sāqa, “to drive, to conscript”) (form I)
* driving (of a car)
* (military) draft, conscription
* mobilization

##### Descendants

* → Ottoman Turkish: سوق (sevk)
** Turkish: sevk

### Etymology 3
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /suːq/

#### Noun

سُوق • (sūq) m pl or f pl
* plural of سَاق (sāq)

### Etymology 4

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

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /saw.wa.qa/

#### Verb

سَوَّقَ • (sawwaqa) II (non-past يُسَوِّقُ (yusawwiqu), verbal noun تَسْوِيق (taswīq))
* to market

##### References

* Wehr, Hans (1979) “سوق”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

## Hijazi Arabic
### Etymology 1

From Arabic سُوق (sūq).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /suːɡ/

#### Noun

سوق • (sūg) m (plural أسواق (ʔaswāg))
* market

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /suːɡ/

#### Verb

سوق • (sūg)
* second-person masculine singular imperative of ساق (sāg)

### Etymology 3

From Arabic سَوَّق (sawwaq).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /saw.waɡ/

#### Verb

سَوَّق • (sawwag) II (non-past يِسَوِّق (yisawwig))
* to market

##### Conjugation
## Moroccan Arabic
### Etymology 1

From Arabic سُوق (sūq).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /suːq/
* Audio:(file)

#### Noun

سوق • (sūq) m (plural سواق (swāq) or أسواق (ʔaswāq))
* market, souq, bazaar, street of shops
* business (something involving one personally)
    ماشي سوقك! ― māši sūqek! ― None of your business!

##### Derived terms

* سوق رومي (sūq rūmi, “supermarket”)

### Etymology 2

From Arabic سَوَّقَ (sawwaqa).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /saw.waq/

#### Verb

سوق • (sawwaq) II (non-past يسوق (ysawwaq), verbal noun تسواق (taswāq) or تسويق (taswīq), active participle مسوق (msawwaq))
* (transitive) to market
* (transitive) to inform
* (intransitive) to care, to pay attention [with ل (l-) ‘to someone or something’]
    حتى واحد ما سوق ليه ― ḥatta wāḥid ma sawwaq līh ― Nobody paid attention to him

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 3
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /suːq/
* Audio:(file)

#### Verb

سوق • (sūq)
* second-person masculine singular imperative of ساق (sāq)

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic سُوق (sūq, “market”).

### Noun

سوق • (suk)
* marketplace, an open area or a street in a town or city housing a public market
* market, souq, fair, a gathering of people for the purchase and sale of merchandise
    Synonyms: بازار (bazar), چارشو (çarşu)

#### Derived terms

* سوقی (suki, “pertaining to the market”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: suk

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “suk4”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4348
* Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “suk”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1153
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سوق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 701
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Mercatus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 1038
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سوق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 2712
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سوق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1093

## South Levantine Arabic
### Etymology 1

From Arabic سَوَّقَ (sawwaqa).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /saw.waʔ/, [ˈsaw.waʔ]
* Audio (al-Lidd):(file)

#### Verb

سوّق • (sawwaʔ) II (present بسوّق (bisawweʔ))
* to market

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 2

From Arabic سُوق (sūq).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /suːʔ/, [suːʔ]
* Audio (Ramallah):(file)

#### Noun

سوق • (sūʔ) m (plural أسواق (ʔaswāʔ))
* market