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شَوَى
to grill (meat, fish, or vegetables over fire) /ʃaˈwaː/
verbB1#2577 most common
Also: to roast, to broil
Example sentences
أَشْوِي السَّمَكَ.
I grill the fish.
هِيَ تَشْوِي الدَّجَاجَ الْآنَ.
She is grilling the chicken now.
شَوَيْنَا اللَّحْمَ عَلَى الْفَحْمِ فِي الْحَفْلَةِ.
We grilled the meat over charcoal at the party.
سَيَشْوِي أَبِي السَّمَكَ بَعْدَ أَنْ يُنَظِّفَهُ.
My father will grill the fish after he cleans it.
شَوَى الطَّبَّاخُ اللَّحْمَ بِبُطْءٍ حَتَّى نَضَجَ مِنَ الدَّاخِلِ دُونَ أَنْ يَحْتَرِقَ مِنَ الْخَارِجِ.
The chef grilled the meat slowly until it cooked through inside without burning outside.
لَوْلَا أَنَّهُ شَوَى اللَّحْمَ بِتِلْكَ الطَّرِيقَةِ التَّقْلِيدِيَّةِ الَّتِي وَرِثَهَا عَنْ جَدِّهِ، لَمَا اكْتَسَبَ الطَّبَقُ ذَلِكَ الطَّعْمَ الْمُمَيَّزَ.
If he had not grilled the meat using that traditional method he inherited from his grandfather, the dish would not have gained that distinctive flavor.
Conjugation
| Present Active | Simple Past Active | Simple Future Active | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1sg | أَشْوِي | شَوَيْتُ | سَأَشْوِي |
| 2sg | تَشْوِي | شَوَيْتَ | سَتَشْوِي |
| 3sg | يَشْوِي | شَوَى | سَيَشْوِي |
| 1pl | نَشْوِي | شَوَيْنَا | سَنَشْوِي |
| 2pl | تَشْوُونَ | شَوَيْتُمْ | سَتَشْوُونَ |
| 3pl | يَشْوُونَ | شَوَوْا | سَيَشْوُونَ |
Word family
شِوَاءgrilled meat; barbecue
مَشْوِيّgrilledمِشْوَىgrill (device or place for grilling)
شَوَّاءgriller; person who grills meat for a living
Etymology
شَوَى comes from the Semitic root ش-و-ي (š-w-y), meaning to roast or grill over open fire. It is a hollow verb: the middle radical و disappears in the past tense third person and surfaces as a long vowel elsewhere in the paradigm. The root and its derivatives are shared across Arabic dialects with no significant shift in core meaning.
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