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شَوَى scorch in Arabic

شَوَى is how you say “scorch” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

واها لفصاحتي شوت أكباد حسدتي فلا بطل الشوى،

Ah, my eloquence scorched the livers of my enviers, yet the hide was not consumed.

شَوَتْ she scorched

A past-tense verb with a built-in feminine-singular 'she/it' subject, agreeing with the eloquence just mentioned as its doer. The feminine ending ties the scorching back to that feminine noun, with no separate pronoun written.

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واها لفصاحتي شوت أكباد حسدتي فلا بطل الشوى،

Ah, my eloquence scorched the livers of my enviers, yet the hide was not consumed.

الشَّوَى the hide

Placed after its verb, this definite noun is the real subject of the negated action and stands in the plain subject ending. The 'the' marks it as a specific known thing, and its post-verb position is normal Arabic order.

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