Word of the day: shufti

As in the phrase “have a shufi” which means “have a look”.

The word comes from the Arabic šufti ‘have you seen?’ which comes from the Arabic verb šāf to see.

The meaning of the word never occurred to me until my recent visit to Syria and Lebanon.

 




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