They might misunderstood you and told you it’s Sooq Alnajareen which translates to carpenter market in Arabic, which is descriptive name for the commercial area. You can add that name to a commercial landuse, not the street, as I told you, the streets has numbers only. Next time ask them what mahala and zuqaq this street is, and that would be the real name of it.    
And about the using of the word alley or street, in Iraq we call Shari translate to street for the main roads, and Zuqaq translates to alley for the residential roads and for the high speed roads or outside the cites roads we call them Tareeq translates to road.       
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