inshallah
Meaning
- Expressing the speaker’s wish for a given future event to occur, and also generally their emphasis on its contingency upon the divine will.
- (colloquial, sarcastic) Expressing a skeptical affirmative, to indicate the unlikeliness of events, as if they need a divine intervention to come about.
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Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˌɪnʃˈɑ.lə/
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic إِنْ شَاءَ ٱللَٰه (ʔin šāʔa llāh, literally “if God has willed [it]”).
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