alt Hacker NewsSo 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.
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rescbr • yesterday at 4:08 PM
I'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.
forinti • yesterday at 1:55 PM
Some words also came into Portuguese from African slaves who were Muslim.
And also from the Lebanese who immigrated to Brazil in the XX century.
Arab Orthodox Christians have been saying "inshallah" longer than Muslims have been around.