машала

Macedonian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish [Term?] (Turkish maşallah), from Arabic مَا شَاءَ ٱللَّه‎ (mā šāʔa l-lah, “God has willed it”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈmaʃaɫa]
  • Hyphenation: ма‧ша‧ла

Interjection

ма́шала • (mášala)

  1. (Islam) mashallah
  2. (colloquial) To express admiration, praise.
  3. (colloquial) Used against the evil eye. (folk chant)
    Пу, пу, ма́шала! ― Pu, pu, mášala! ― Pu, pu, mashallah!

See also

References
  • Belčev, Tole (2016), “машала”, in Речник на турцизми, архаизми, дијалектизми и ретко употребувани зборови во македонскиот јазик [Dictionary of Turkisms, Archaisms, Dialectisms and Rarely Used Words in the Macedonian Language] (in Macedonian), Štip: UGD, →ISBN, page 111
  • “машала” in Дигитален речник на македонскиот јазик (Digitalen rečnik na makedonskiot jazik) [Digital dictionary of the Macedonian language] − drmj.eu
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