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A souq or souk ((アラビア語:سوق), (ヘブライ語:שוק) ''sūq'', also spelled shuk, shooq, soq, souk, esouk, suk, sooq, souq, or suq) is an open-air marketplace or commercial quarter in Western Asian and North African cities.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mahane Yehuda website )〕 The equivalent Persian term is "bazaar". ==Etymology== The spelling souk entered European languages through French, probably during the French occupation of the Berber countries Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia in the 19th or 20th centuries. Thus, the word "souk" most likely refers to Berber/North African traditional markets. Other spellings of this word involving the letter "Q" (sooq, souq...) were likely developed using English and thus refer to Western Asian/Arab traditional markets, as British colonialism was present there during the 19th and 20th centuries. In Modern Standard Arabic the term ''al-sooq'' refers to markets in both the physical sense and the abstract economic sense (e.g., an Arabic-speaker would speak of the ''sooq'' in the old city as well as the ''sooq'' for oil, and would call the concept of the free market السوق الحرّ ''as-sūq al-ḥurr''). As in markets generally, prices are commonly set by bargaining between buyers and sellers. The term is often used to designate the market in any Western Asian city, but may also be used in Western cities, particularly those with a Muslim community. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Souq」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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