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(e.g. charity bazaar).

Souk

The word "souk" in the Arabic-speaking world is roughly equivalent to "bazaar". The Arabic word is a loan from Aramaic "suqa" ("street, market"), itself a loanword from the Akkadian "suqu" ("street"). The Arabic word ' was then borrowed into English via French souk by the 19th century. The English word can also be spelled "suq" or "souq".

In Modern Standard Arabic

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