mashallah

See also: Mashallah

English

Etymology

From Arabic مَا شَاءَ ٱللّٰه (mā šāʔa llāh).

Interjection

mashallah

1. (Islam) Expressing the speaker's gratitude for a blessing or their recognition of divine intervention in its occurrence. God willed it.
   • 2019, Maggie Paxson, The Plateau, Penguin, →ISBN, page 308:

     Mashallah, I hear Akhmad say. Mashallah. I ask him what it means. “Mashallah, it's to be thankful. Something wonderful.” It means, literally, “God wills it.” And yet it seems, there's a kind of joy inside the word, too. Some large, cosmic gratitude.

2. (Islam) Expressing the speaker's wish for a fortune to be maintained, especially against the evil eye; used in congratulation.

   Coordinate term: knock on wood

   • 2014, Na'ima B. Robert, She Wore Red Trainers: A Muslim Love Story, Kube Publishing Ltd, →ISBN:

     'Mashallah, fine set of boys you've got here, sir,' he smiled, shaking us all by the hand, and giving Jamal a mock punch on the shoulder. 'Y'all new to the masjid?' ' Yes, we are,' Dad answered him. 'It's our first time here as a family.'

3. An indication of excitement, surprise or astonishment. Wow!

Related terms

• Allah
• inshallah
• what hath God wrought (similar literal meaning and historically in usage)

Translations

God has willed it

• Arabic: مَا شَاءَ ٱللَّه (mā šāʔa l-lah)
• Armenian: մաշալլա (hy) (mašalla)
• Azerbaijani: maşallah
• Bengali: মাশাআল্লাহ্ (bn) (maśaallah)
• Finnish: kuten Allah haluaa, masha Allah
• French: mashallah (fr)
• Hindi: माशाल्लाह (māśāllāh), माशाअल्लाह (hi) (māśāallāh)
• Indonesian: masya Allah (id)
• Kazakh: мәшә Аллаһ (mäşä Allah), машалла (maşalla)
• Kumyk: машаллагь (maşallah)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: maşelah

• Ladino: mashala
• Macedonian: машала (mašala)
• Malay: masya Allah
• Marathi: माशाल्लाह (māśāllāh)
• Pashto: ماشأالله (māšalláh), ماشاء الله (māša' lláh)
• Persian: ماشاءالله (fa) (mâšâ'allah)
• Russian: машалла́х (mašalláx), машаалла́х (mašaalláx)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: машаллах, машалах, машала

  Roman: mašallah, mašalah, mašala (sh)

• Tagalog: mashallah
• Tajik: мошоллоҳ (mošolloh)
• Thai: มาชาอัลลอฮ์ (maa-chaa-an-lɔɔ)
• Turkish: maşallah (tr)
• Urdu: ماشاءاَللہ (māśā’allāh)
• Uyghur: ماشائاللا (masha'alla)
• Uzbek: mosholloh

Anagrams

• mahallahs

Tagalog

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Arabic مَا شَاءَ ٱللّٰه (mā šāʔa llāh).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˌmaˈʃala/ [ˌmaːˈʃaː.lɐ]
• Rhymes: -ala
• Syllabification: ma‧sha‧llah

Interjection

máshállah (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜐ᜔ᜌᜎ) (Islam)

1. mashallah (God has willed it)

Related terms

• Allah