შუკა

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Armenian շուկայ (šukay), from Classical Syriac ܫܘܩܐ‎ (šūqā’), from Akkadian 𒋻 (sūqu, “street”), from [script needed] (sâqu, “narrow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃukʼɑ/
• Hyphenation: შუ‧კა

Noun

შუკა • (šuḳa) (plural შუკები)

1. (dated) narrow street
2. (dialectal, Imeretian, Gurian) narrow village street between fences

References

• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971–1979), “շուկայ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Armenian շուկայ (šukay), from Classical Syriac ܫܘܩܐ‎ (šūqā’), from Akkadian 𒋻 (sūqu, “street”), from [script needed] (sâqu, “narrow”).

Noun

შუკა • (šuka)

1. lane, side street, alley
2. square

References

• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971–1979), “շուկայ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press
• Kipšidze, I. (1910), “შუკა”, in Grammatika mingrelʹskago (iverskago) jazyka s xrestomatijeju i slovarem [Grammar of the Mingrelian (Iverian) Language with a Reader and a Dictionary] (Materialy po jafetičeskomu jazykoznaniju; 7) (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences