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So much so that the controversy over the use of “insha’Allah” by non-Muslims was missed by me, Portuguese has “oxalá”, and I could not understand the problem.
by portugueasey 2mo ago
So much so that the controversy over the use of “insha’Allah” by non-Muslims was missed by me, Portuguese has “oxalá”, and I could not understand the problem.
It’s funny how many words we use in Portuguese and Spanish that have their origin in the Moorish time.
- heyjamesknight 2mo agoArab Orthodox Christians have been saying "inshallah" longer than Muslims have been around.
- forinti 2mo agoSome words also came into Portuguese from African slaves who were Muslim. And also from the Lebanese who immigrated to Brazil in the XX century.
- rescbr 2mo agoI'm Brazilian and I had never connected "insha'Allah" to "oxalá". Wow, TIL. At least we were taught in school that if a word starts with "al" then there is a big chance it has roots in Arabic.