Classical Syriac

Noun

ܫܘܩܐ • ‎(šūqā’) m ‎(plural ܫܘܩܐ)

1. street
2. square, plaza, forum, court
3. market, bazaar
4. open space
5. quarter, district, borough

Inflection

Descendants

• Amharic: ሱቅ ‎(suḳ)
• Arabic: سُوق ‎(sūq)
  • Maltese: suq
  • Russian: сук ‎(suk)
• Hebrew: שׁוּק ‎(shuk)
• Middle Persian: [script needed] ‎(šūkā)
• Old Armenian: շուկայ ‎(šukay)
  • Armenian: շուկա ‎(šuka)
  • Georgian: შუკა ‎(šuḳa)

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek σηκός ‎(sēkós).

Noun

ܫܘܩܐ • ‎(transliteration needed) m ‎(plural ܫܘܩܐ)

1. laura, enclosure

Inflection

References

• “$wq”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• Costaz, Louis (2002) Dictionnaire syriaque-français : Syriac–English Dictionary, 3rd edition, Beirut: Dar El-Machreq, p. 363b
• Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 568a
• Sokoloff, Michael (2009) A Syriac Lexicon: A Translation from the Latin, Correction, Expansion, and Update of C. Brockelmann's Lexicon Syriacum, Winona Lake, Indiana; Piscataway, New Jersey: Eisenbrauns; Gorgias Press, p. 1534b