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Date: 26 Jul 2009
From:<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; white-space: normal; ">aziz abbassi <<a href="mailto:abbassiaziz@gmail.com">abbassiaziz@gmail.com</a>></span>
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<br></span></font></p><p align=""><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; white-space: normal; "><div>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.</div><div> </div><div>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</div><div>"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".</div><div>Any further transformation was due to inter-lingual phonetic adjustments.<br></div><div>Hope this hunch is helpful to Haruko.</div><div><br>Aziz Abbassi, PhD<br>Author & Language Consultant<br></div><div><br></div></span>
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Date: 26 Jul 2009
From:<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; white-space: normal; ">baudouin joseph <<a href="mailto:legrandbosra@yahoo.fr">legrandbosra@yahoo.fr</a>></span>
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<br></span></font></p><p align=""><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">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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