Meaning & use

Suq

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A marketplace or bazaar, especially in an Arab country, often consisting of narrow streets lined with small shops and stalls.

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Spice merchants filled the narrow lanes of the old suq.

Tourists haggled over prices in the crowded suq.

A note on using this word

An alternate transliteration of 'souk,' from the Arabic sūq, referring to a traditional open-air or covered market.

Words with a similar meaning

soukbazaarmarketplace

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