oxalá

== Portuguese == === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: o‧xa‧lá Rhymes: -a Homophone: Oxalá === Etymology 1 === Borrowed from Early Modern Spanish ojalá, from Arabic وَشَاءَ ٱلله (wašāʔa llāh, “and may God will it”) or لَوْ شَاءَ ٱلله (law šāʔa llāh, “if God wills it”). Compare English inshallah. ==== Adverb ==== oxalá (not comparable) hopefully (I hope that) Synonym: tomara ==== Interjection ==== oxalá! I hope so; let’s hope so Synonym: tomara === Etymology 2 === ==== Noun ==== oxalá m (uncountable) alternative letter-case form of Oxalá === References === === Further reading === “oxalá”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026