inshallah

English dictionary entry

Meanings

intj
  1. Expressing the speaker’s wish for a given future event to occur, and also generally their emphasis on its contingency upon the divine will.
  2. Expressing a skeptical affirmative, to indicate the unlikeliness of events, as if they need a divine intervention to come about.

Pronunciation

/ˌɪnˈʃɑ.lə/ /ˌɪn.ʃɑˈlɑ/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-inshallah.wav

Word forms

inshallah insha'Allah in sha Allah InsyaAllah

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic إِنْ شَاءَ ٱللَٰه (ʔin šāʔa llāh, literally “if God has willed [it]”).

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