Arabic-L:LING:ojala

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Date: 26 Jul 2009
From:aziz abbassi <abbassiaziz at gmail.com>
Subject:ojala


The Spanish "Ojala" generally means (in most Spanish-speaking  
countries) : hopefully, with a sense of a strong wish linked to a  
higher force's will.

While many equate the present form Oxalla with the Arabic meaning of  
In-Shaa' Allah, I have a socio-linguistic "intuition" that the actual  
lexical derivation comes from the high-frequency Arabic swear-phrase  
wa-allah! (by God). And when the Andalucian Spaniards were hearing the  
Arabs using this expression often along with another figh-requency  
expression "in-shaa'-allah" with the meaning of
"if God wills/wishes", they must have in time blended the semantic  
values of these two expressions and eventually borrowed  "wa-allah"  
into Spanish with the blended meaning of "God willing".
Any further transformation was due to inter-lingual phonetic  
adjustments.
Hope this hunch is helpful to Haruko.

Aziz  Abbassi, PhD
Author & Language Consultant


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Date: 26 Jul 2009
From:baudouin joseph <legrandbosra at yahoo.fr>
Subject:ojala


Dear Haruko,
The muslims know what Allah wants or wanted is a blessing and a good  
thing for who knows that the Allah's will is for ever good. Maybe for  
this reason the term is used in this meaning.
Best regards,
JGB

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