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edit- verbal noun ofشَوَى(šawā) (form I)
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editشي• (šayy) m (pluralأشياء(ʔašyāʔ))
Derived terms
edit- كُل شي(kull šayy,“everything”)
Pronoun
editشي• (šayy)
North Levantine Arabic
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editشي• (šī) m (pluralإشيا(ʾišya)orأشيا(ʾašya))
- thing
- هيدي اشيا كتير مهمة ―haydiʾišya ktīr mhimme. ―These are very importantthings.
Usage notes
editشي(šī) usually instead meanssomething (see below), and only securely meansthing when plural or construed with the definite article. The predominant term forthing otherwise isشغلة(šaḡle).
Pronoun
edit- something,anything
- بدك شي تاني، حبيبتي؟ ―baddikšī tāni, ḥabībti? ―Do you wantanything else, honey?
- بدي عطيك شي. ―baddi ʿaṭīkšī. ―I want to give yousomething.
Determiner
editشي• (šī)
- some,any
- في شي مشكلة؟ ―fīšī miškle? ―Is thereany [kind of] problem?
- رح يرجع شي يوم ―raḥ yirjaʿšī yōm. ―He’ll come backsome day.
Adverb
editشي• (šī)
- circa,about
- لازم تنطرلك شي عشرين دقيقه
- lāzim tunṭurlakšī ʿišrīn-i dʾīʾa.
- You have to wait forabout twenty minutes.
- just,barely
- ما بدها هالقد شرح يعني شي إنك توصلهن الفكرة
- ma badd(h)a hal-ʾadd šarḥ yaʿnišī ʾinnak twaṣṣell(h)on l-fikra
- It doesn't need this much explaining, like it'senough just to get the idea across to them
- لسا شي طلعت من البيت ―lissašī ṭliʿt mni l-bēt ―(Syria) I onlyjust left the house.
Derived terms
edit- شي ما(šī ma,“as soon as”)
Particle
editشي• (šī)
- Optionally marks a yes-or-no question, used with intransitive verbs or after the object of a transitive verb
- عنا حليب شي؟ ―ʿinna ḥalībšī? ―Do we have milk?
South Levantine Arabic
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editشي• (šī) m (pluralأشيا(ʔašya)orإشيا(ʔišya))
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editشي• (šīorši)
Determiner
editشي• (ši)
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