Aramaic

Alternative forms

• Syriac: ܫܘܩܐ

Noun

שוקא • ‎(transliteration needed) m ‎(plural שוקא)

1. street
2. square, plaza, forum
3. market, bazaar
4. open space
5. quarter, district, borough

References

• “$wq”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• Jastrow, Marcus (1903) A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature, London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons
• Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press