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What is the exact meaning of the song's title شو عدا ما بدا ? There is a famous song شو عدا ما بدا https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXGrqu6hhmU&feature=player_embedded Can someone explain the meaning of it's name? It seems to me that it's an idiom or smth. like this.

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Usually it could take many meanings.I would say ,what made this start unexpectedly? شو means what عدا means except بدا means started trasnlation: what made this start unexpectedly no one cares we ended wanting to sell diamonds of the rings, gold of the mines so we pay in the restaurants the lunch bill what made this start unexpectedly what made this start unexpectedly
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Actually Alina, this idiom شو عدا ما بدا is mostly used in a situation when someone does something that is unexpected from him/her, so you ask them شو عدا ما بدا؟, as if you are saying: "What happened to make you do this unexpectedly?". It's usually said in a mockery tone though. It's used in Levantine Arabic.
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This is an expression in Lebanese/Syrian Arabic dialect(and not used in formal language الفصحى),the closest translation is "how come..?" For example "how come you have done this?"
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other than that l or what's changed

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