سُوقٌ
1.
[A market, mart, or fair;] a place in which commerce is carried on; (ISd, Msb, TA;) a place of articles of merchandise: (Mgh, TA:) so called because people drive their commodities thither: (TA:) [in the S unexplained, and in the K only said to be well-known:] of the feminine gender, and masculine, (S, Mgh, Msb, K, *) the former in the dialect of the people of El-Hijáz, and the latter in that of Temeem, (S and Msb voce زُقَاقٌ, q. v.,) the former the more chaste, or the making it masculine is a mistake: (Msb:) plural أَسْوَاقٌ: (TA:) the diminutive is
سُوَيْقَةٌ [with ة, confirming the opinion of those who hold سُوقٌ to be only feminine]: also signifying merchandise, synonym تِجَارَةٌ; as in the phrase, جَاءَتْ سُوَيْقَةٌ [Merchandise came]. (TA.)