shuk

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Pronunciations

shuk (SHOOK) listen
shuk (SHUUK) listen

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Definitions

  • n. Open air market in Israel.

Example Sentences

  • "Most Israelis buy their produce in the shuk, not in a grocery store."

  • "And for Joan I bought this headscarf real cheap in the shuk..." (Glinert)

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Languages of Origin

  • Modern Hebrew

Etymology

  • שׁוּק⁩ shúk

      • Who Uses This

      • Israel: Diaspora Jews who feel connected to Israel and have spent time there

      Regions

      • North America
      • Australia / New Zealand
      • South Africa

      Dictionaries

      • Yiddish and English: A Century of Yiddish in America, by Sol Steinmetz (Tuscaloosa, 1986).
      • The Joys of Hebrew, by Lewis Glinert (New York, 1992).

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