"ليش" meaning in South Levantine Arabic

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "arz",
        "2": "لِيه",
        "tr": "lēh"
      },
      "expansion": "Egyptian Arabic لِيه (lēh)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ar",
        "2": "",
        "3": "لِمَاذَا",
        "tr": "li-māḏā"
      },
      "expansion": "Arabic لِمَاذَا (li-māḏā)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "ل (li-, “to, for”) + إِيش (ʔēš, “what”). Compare a similar structure in Egyptian Arabic لِيه (lēh) and Standard Arabic لِمَاذَا (li-māḏā), as well as in other languages such as French pourquoi, German warum, and dated English wherefore.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "lēš",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ajp",
        "2": "adverb",
        "tr": "lēš"
      },
      "expansion": "ليش • (lēš)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "South Levantine Arabic",
  "lang_code": "ajp",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Arabic terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "South Levantine Arabic entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "what for?, why?"
      ],
      "id": "en-ليش-ajp-adv-OhlyP5fn",
      "links": [
        [
          "what for",
          "what for"
        ],
        [
          "why",
          "why"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/leːʃ/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[leːʃ]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ليش"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "arz",
        "2": "لِيه",
        "tr": "lēh"
      },
      "expansion": "Egyptian Arabic لِيه (lēh)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ar",
        "2": "",
        "3": "لِمَاذَا",
        "tr": "li-māḏā"
      },
      "expansion": "Arabic لِمَاذَا (li-māḏā)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "ل (li-, “to, for”) + إِيش (ʔēš, “what”). Compare a similar structure in Egyptian Arabic لِيه (lēh) and Standard Arabic لِمَاذَا (li-māḏā), as well as in other languages such as French pourquoi, German warum, and dated English wherefore.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "lēš",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ajp",
        "2": "adverb",
        "tr": "lēš"
      },
      "expansion": "ليش • (lēš)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "South Levantine Arabic",
  "lang_code": "ajp",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Arabic terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
        "South Levantine Arabic adverbs",
        "South Levantine Arabic entries with incorrect language header",
        "South Levantine Arabic interrogative adverbs",
        "South Levantine Arabic lemmas",
        "South Levantine Arabic terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "South Levantine Arabic terms with audio links"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "what for?, why?"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "what for",
          "what for"
        ],
        [
          "why",
          "why"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/leːʃ/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[leːʃ]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ليش"
}