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| donarosalia Newbie Puerto Rico Joined 6387 days ago 13 posts - 11 votes | Message 1 of 4 31 May 2007 at 8:58am | IP Logged |
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Please provide details if you are familiar with the Spanish word, ojala. If you know where this word originates from, I'd greatly appreciate it.
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 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6703 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes  Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 4 31 May 2007 at 10:20am | IP Logged |
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According to this source it comes from an Arab expression meaning "si Dios quisiera"
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| donarosalia Newbie Puerto Rico Joined 6387 days ago 13 posts - 11 votes | Message 3 of 4 31 May 2007 at 10:31am | IP Logged |
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Gracias. Muchas gracias.
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| Shinn Trilingual Tetraglot Groupie India gallery.takingitglob Joined 6412 days ago 61 posts - 69 votes Speaks: English*, Hindi*, Oriya*, SpanishB2 Studies: FrenchB1, Japanese, Irish | Message 4 of 4 06 June 2007 at 4:17am | IP Logged |
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Yo también he oído que "ojalá" viene de "Oh Allah" que es árabe.
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