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

• ишала (išala)

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]‎^[1] (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