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Macedonian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish (Turkish maşallah), from Arabic مَا شَاءَ ٱللَّه (mā šāʔa l-lah, “God has willed it”).
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: ма‧ша‧ла
Interjection
ма́шала • (mášala)
- (Islam) mashallah
- (colloquial) To express admiration, praise.
- (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) − drmj.eu