Ojalá que... puede ser como "God willing"?

Question

He escuchado otras explicaciones para esta frase como "God grant" o "May God" pero inglés estas frases no se usa. Bueno...posiblemente "God granted" Que piensan uds. ¿Cómo traducirían esta frase?

Answer 1

I think that ojalá que is probably more along the lines "I hope to God that.."

Answer 2

Okay I found this:

One of the words of Arabic origin which is still used in Spanish is ojalá.

If you go to the roots of the word you’ll see that it roughly means “if God [Allah] wants it” or “and may God will it”. However, the best translation nowadays is “hopefully”, “let’s hope” or “I hope”.

Answer 3

Greg said:

Where does "God" enter that phrase? How is it built in to "Ojalá"?

Ojalá came from Arabic...something like "may Alla wish it so."

Even in this dictionary is defines Ojalá as "God grant!"

Thank you very much. I didn't go down far enough on the dictionary page! Ojalá is gonna be a word I don't use. But it's good to know what it means. - Goyo, SEP 25, 2009

Answer 4

Ojalla is any one of those things. May God bendiga, Hopefully it will come to pass, etc.

Answer 5

Where does "God" enter that phrase? How is it built in to "Ojalá"? I don't see that at all.

It originates from Arabic dating back to when the Moors dominated Spain the orginal phrase is In šāʾ Allāh meaning If it is God's will. - Iye, SEP 25, 2009

Allah means God in Arabic Allah more or less turns into "alá" in Spanish. - Iye, SEP 25, 2009