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Souk

Definition: Souk

Souk

Noun

1. An open-air market in an Arabian city.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Modern Usage: Souk

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Souk el selah (1960)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Souk

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Commercial quater in an Arab City. Often misused to design the market. The word Souk is often used as a synonym for "mess" in French.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Souk."

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Commercial Usage: Souk

DomainTitle

Music

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Usage Frequency: Souk

"Souk" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 86.21% of the time. "Souk" is used about 29 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)86.21%2569,787
Noun (proper)13.79%4175,879
                    Total100.00%29N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Souk

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "souk": souk-like.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Souk

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

souk

93

le souk

13

dubai gold souk

4

restaurant souk

3

marrakech souk

3

le new souk york

3

souk ahras

3

gold souk

2

chicago souk

2

e souk

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Souk

Language Translations for "souk"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Thai

  

ตลา"นั"กลางแจ้งในแอฟริกาและตะวันออกกลาง. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

çarşı (arcade, bazaar, fair, market, mart). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Souk

Derivations

Words beginning with "souk": souks. (additional references)

Words containing "souk": bousouki, bousoukia, bousoukis. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Souk"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "souk" (pronounced suw"k)
2-uw" kduke, fluke, juke, kook, nuke, puke, rebuke, spook.

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Anagrams: Souk

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "k-o-s-u"

-1 letter: kos, sou.

-2 letters: os, so, us.

 Words containing the letters "k-o-s-u"
 

+1 letter: jouks, kudos, kusso, souks.

 

+2 letters: buckos, bunkos, drouks, hokums, khoums, knouts, koumis, koumys, kouros, kousso, kussos, oakums, outask, sukkot.

 

+3 letters: bohunks, buckoes, bunkoes, cockups, cuckoos, hookups, judokas, korunas, koumiss, koumyss, koussos, leukons, lockups, lookups, mockups, mollusk, moujiks, outasks, outkiss, outsulk, outtask, padouks, quokkas, sickout, skookum, sukkoth, turkois, tussock, uncocks, uncorks, undocks, unhooks, unknots, unlocks, unspoke, unyokes, workups.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Souk


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 6F 75 6B

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    ---    ..-    -.-

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01101111 01110101 01101011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#111 &#117 &#107

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 006F 0075 006B

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

53818777

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Rhymes
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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