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سُوق
market /ˈsuːq/
nounA2#1395 most common
Also: marketplace, the market (economic sense), bazaar
Example sentences
أَذْهَبُ إِلى السُّوقِ كُلَّ يَوْمٍ.
I go to the market every day.
السُّوقُ مُزْدَحِمَةٌ بِالنّاسِ اليَوْمَ.
The market is crowded with people today.
اِشْتَرَيْتُ الخُضارَ مِنَ السُّوقِ القَريبَةِ.
I bought the vegetables from the nearby market.
تَشْتَهِرُ هذِهِ المَدينَةُ بِسوقِها القَديمَةِ الّتي يَزورُها السُّيّاحُ.
This city is famous for its old market that tourists visit.
شَهِدَتْ سوقُ الأَسْهُمِ تَقَلُّباتٍ حادَّةً خِلالَ الأُسبوعِ الماضي.
The stock market saw sharp swings during the past week.
تَخْضَعُ أسعارُ هذِهِ السِّلَعِ لِقُوى العَرْضِ وَالطَّلَبِ في السّوقِ الحُرَّةِ، وَتَتَأَثَّرُ أَيْضاً بِتَدَخُّلِ الدَّوْلَةِ.
The prices of these goods are subject to the forces of supply and demand in the free market, and they are also affected by state intervention.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | سُوقٌ | أَسْواقٌ |
| Genitive | سُوقٍ | أَسْواقٍ |
| Accusative | سُوقًا | أَسْواقًا |
| Vocative | يا سُوقُ | يا أَسْواقُ |
Word family
Etymology
The noun comes from the Semitic root s-w-q, which carries the sense of driving or herding. Markets were the place where livestock was driven to be sold, so the word came to mean the place of trade. The same root gives the verb sāqa, meaning to drive. The Arabic word later passed into European languages, giving English souk and Spanish zoco.
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