Georgian

Noun

შუკა • ‎(šuḳa) ‎(plural შუკები)

1. (dated) narrow street
2. (dialectal, Imeretian, Gurian) narrow village street between fences

Synonyms

• (street between fences): ორღობე ‎(orɣobe)

Derived terms

• შუკა-შუკა ‎(šuḳa-šuḳa)

References

• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971–1979), “շուկայ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, published 1926–1935

Mingrelian

Etymology

Borrowing from Old Armenian շուկայ ‎(šukay), from Classical Syriac ܫܘܩܐ ‎(šūqā’), from Akkadian 𒋻 ‎(sūqu, “street”), from [script needed] ‎(sâqu, “narrow”).

Noun

შუკა • ‎(šuka)

1. lane, side street, alley
2. square

References

• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971–1979), “շուկայ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, published 1926–1935
• Kipšidze, I. (1910), “შუკა”, in Grammatika mingrelʹskago (iverskago) jazyka s xrestomatijeju i slovarem [Grammar of the Mingrelian (Iverian) Language with a Reader and a Dictionary] (Materialy po jafetičeskomu jazykoznaniju; 7) (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences