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An open-air market in an Arabian city
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souk
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of souq English)
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Arab bazaar, 1826, from French souk , from Arabic suq "marketplace."
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He had his agents out in the bazaars and souks and offered a steady price for good information. ▪ I almost dozed off once or twice, lulled by the sounds of the souk . ▪ Owen went down to the souk himself. ▪ Sometimes at night ...
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. an open-air market in an Arabian city
Usage examples of souk.
They passed through bazaars and crowded souks where the merchants displayed their stocks.
They had visited the sights of Ankh-Morpork, its crowded docks, its many bridges, its souks, its casbahs, its streets lined with nothing but temples.
He nodded and we plunged into the maelstrom that swirled around the dark mouth of the covered way that led down into the first of the souks.