Etymology

inshallah

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Today it means: Expressing the speaker’s wish for a given future event to occur, and also generally their emphasis on its contingency upon the divine will. Full definition →

Arabic إِنْ شَاءَ ٱللَّٰه
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  1. Arabic · borrowed fromإِنْ شَاءَ ٱللَّٰه
  2. English todayinshallah

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

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