inshallah

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Pronunciations

ishallah (EE-shah-lah) listen

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Definitions

  • interj. God willing.

Example Sentences

  • "So earlier this year, I was frustrated and depressed when a college student conversing with his father on a cell phone while waiting for takeoff said he would call again when he landed, inshAllah, and then he was escorted off the plane when another passenger interpreted this conversation as somehow threatening." (source)

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Languages of Origin

  • Arabic / Judeo-Arabic
  • Persian

Etymology

  • A إن شاء الله ʔin šāʔa llāhu > P ان‌شاءالله

      • Who Uses This

      • Syrian: Jews with recent ancestry in Syria
      • Ottoman Sephardim: Jews with ancestry in Spain and, post-expulsion, in Turkey, Greece, and other parts of the Ottoman Empire
      • Persian: Jews with recent ancestry in Iran

      Regions

      • North America

      Dictionaries

      • None

      Alternative Spellings

      inshala, inshalah, inshalla, ishallah, ishalla, ishala, ishalah

Notes

  • The Persian-Jewish pronunciation typically elides the 'n,' thus: 'ishallah.'

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