What is "souq"

n. 1 A street market, particularly in Arabic- and Somali-speaking countries; a place where people buy and sell goods; a bazaar. 2 A mess — derived from French slang, and the lively chaos of a souq¹.

A souq or souk (, suq, , also spelled shuk, shooq, soq, esouk, suk, sooq, suq, succ) is an open-air marketplace or commercial quarter in Western Asian and North African cities. The equivalent Persian term is " bazaar".