souk

1. 1.

   an open-air market in an Arabian city

   Broaderopen-air market

Other forms of souk

plural

souks·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about souk

What does souk mean?

souk means "an open-air market in an Arabian city".

How many syllables are in souk?

souk has 1 syllable: souk. In IPA it is /ˈsuk/.

Is souk a common word?

souk is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.