ليش

See also: ليس and لیس

Gulf Arabic

Pronunciation
  • (Kuwaiti) IPA(key): /leʃ/, [leːʃ]

Adverb

ليش • (leʃ)

  1. why?
    Synonym: شْحَقَّه (ʃ7əggə)

Hijazi Arabic

Etymology

لِ (li-, “for”) + إِيش (ʔēš, “what”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /leːʃ/, [le̞ːʃ]

Adverb

ليش • (lēš)

  1. why?
    Synonym: ليه (lē)

Karakhanid

Etymology

Borrowed from Tocharian B leśp (“mucus, phlegm”).[1][2][3]

Noun

لٖيشْ (lḗš)

  1. (physiology) mucus, phlegm
    لٖيشْ اَقْتٖى ― Lḗš aqtï̄. ― The phlegm or mucus flowed.

References
  1. Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 609
  2. Clauson, Gerard (1972) “léşp”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 764
  3. Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 316

Further reading

North Levantine Arabic

Alternative forms

Etymology

ل (li-, la-, “to, for”) + إِيش (ʔēš, “what”), although the normal word for “what” is now شو (šū) 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.

Adverb

ليش • (lēš)

  1. why?

South Levantine Arabic

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /leːʃ/, [leːʃ]
  • Audio (Ramallah)(file)

Adverb

ليش • (lēš)

  1. what for?, why?
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