سوقاق

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• صوقاق (sokak)

Etymology

From Persian زقاق (zoqâq), from Arabic زُقَاق (zuqāq).

سوقاق

Noun

سوقاق • (sokak)

1. street, road, lane, alley

Descendants

• Turkish: sokak
• → Armenian: սոխախ (soxax)
• → Albanian: sokak
• → Aromanian: sucachie
• → Bulgarian: сока́к (sokák)
• → Greek: σοκάκι (sokáki)
• → Macedonian: сокак (sokak)
• → Mariupol Greek: суха́х (suxáx)
• → Romanian: socac
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: со̀ка̄к

  Latin script: sòkāk

See also

• շուկայ (šukay)

References

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sokak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صوقاق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian