See شوي in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable South Levantine Arabic dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-07-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-07-01 using wiktextract (b80cf99 and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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