بالشقلوب

Alteration of بِالمَقْلُوب (bil-maʔlūb, “upside-down; backwards”) by association with the root consonants of the verbs شَقْلَب (šaʔlab, “to flip (something) over”) and تْشَقْلَب (tšaʔlab, “to tumble, to roll over, flip over”), which see for further etymology.

The original expression بِالمَقْلُوب (bil-maʔlūb, “upside-down; backwards”, literally “in the flipped [manner]”), still used in Moroccan Arabic, Hijazi Arabic, and other varieties, is from بِـ (bi-, “in”) +‎ الـ (l-, definite article) +‎ مَقْلُوب (maʔlūb, “flipped”), the regular passive participle of قَلَب (ʔalab, “to flip”).

• IPA^(key): /biʃ-ʃaʔˈluːb/
• (Druze, coastal Syria) IPA^(key): /biʃ-ʃaqˈluːb/

بِالشَّقْلُوب • (biš-šaʔlūb)

1. upside-down

   Synonym: فَوْقَانِي تَحْتَانِي (fawʔāni taḥtāni, literally “upper [to] lower”)

2. backwards (as in flipped around)

   Near-synonym: خْلَيْفَاني (ḵlayfāni, “backwards”, as in walking backwards)

3. inside-out

   Antonyms: عَالجِيد (ʕal-jīd, ʕaj-jīd), بِالجِيد (bil-jīd, bij-jīd, “right-side-out”)

• Can be used either adjectivally or adverbially.