شونيز doesn't appear in Hans Wehr's Modern Standard Arabic dictionary, but Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon has an entry for it. Select the entry below for the full classical Arabic definition.

• شُونِيزٌ

  شُونِيزٌ ذ , (Mgh, K,) so called by the Persians, (TA,) [and generally by the Arabs in the present day,] and شَوْنِيزٌ, as in the “ Towsheeh ” of ElJelál Es-Suyootee, (TA,) and شِينيزٌ, (AHn, L, and so in some copies of …

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