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"Kulshi" meaning?

I have heard the phrase "kulshi tamam" to mean "everything is ok." So I thought kulshi meant "everything" or "all." Just recently I heard an Iraqi phrase "Shako mako" ("what's new?") and the response "Kulshi mako" to mean "nothing is new." What does kulshi mean? Nothing or everything?

For learning: Arabic
Base language: English
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    Kulshi - means - Everything ..

    It means everything. كل شيء
    When I ask you : How it's going ?or what's up ? you say :"kulshi tamem""كل شيء تمام" tamem or "bikher" or"mnih" mean good.
    Good luck

    Kulshi = Kul Shi = كل شيء = Every Thing

    Kul = كل Every

    كل يوم Every day

    كل وقت Every time

    شيء = Thing

    ما هاذا الشيء ؟ what's this thing ?

    هذا الشيء جديد This thing is new

    About ( shako mako ) is a dialect not arabic , i don't know what does it mean.

    Hope it helps :D

    I think that the origin of the words shu ku ma ku is shu yakun ma yakun....cause in other dialects they also say "shu fi ma fi ? "...( though I'm not sure but I can't thing of another origin of this words o_O)
    shu شو= what ( in dialect )
    fi في= is (there) (also in dialect)
    ma ما= not
    yakun يكون = be/exist
    so both mean like "what is there what's not ?" or ( what's being what's not )
    kulshi maku= everything is not there ( so it means there is nothing new)
    you could also answer:
    maku shi = there is nothing
    shi شيء= something or a thing
    hope it's kind of clear :)

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