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inshallah.

Expressing the speaker’s wish for a given future event to occur, and also generally their emphasis on its contingency upon the divine will.

9 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

intj/ˌɪnˈʃɑ.lə/US/ˌɪn.ʃɑˈlɑ/Canada
  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.

    We will sign the contract tomorrow, inshallah.
  2. Expressing a skeptical affirmative, to indicate the unlikeliness of events, as if they need a divine intervention to come about.

    colloquial · sarcastic
Where this word comes from

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

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