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InshaAllah and other phrases

Nicholas_83Nicholas_83
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I have noticed InshaAllah used by parishioners frequently.
I am a convert from a Roman Catholic background and had only heard this said frequently by Muslims (though of course the meaning is clearly fine for Coptic Orthodox) .
What has me curious are phrases like alhamdulillah (which seems like something I might want to say often) and SubhanAllah or any others also appropriate?
I ask as phrases like these are some of the little Arabic I know.

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  • bashandybashandy
    There are equivalents in the Coptic language to inshAlla (ISA) & alhamdulillah they probably have been used before the 7th century

     ⲁⲣⲉϣⲁⲛⲪϯ ⲟⲩⲱϣ God willing: Inshalla
    ϯϣⲉⲡϩⲙⲟⲧ ⲛ̀ⲧⲟⲧϥ ⲙ̀Ⲫϯ I thank God: alhamdulilla

    As for Subhan Allah the meaning is fine but I haven't heard many Copts using it.


  • Nicholas_83Nicholas_83
    bashandy could you please put the transliteration for these? My computer is not displaying Coptic properly. Thanks!
  • Daniel_Kyrillos
    @Nicholas_83 in Greco-Bohairic:
    Ar-eshan Efnouti ou-oosh
    Ti-shep-ehmot en-totf em-Efnouti
  • Nicholas_83Nicholas_83
    Thanks!
  • bashandybashandy
    According to transliteration scheme by Copt-Net
    http://www.coptic.net/articles/CopticAlphabet.txt
    aPEyaN QNOYt OYWy
    tyEn2MOT 'NTOTq 'MqNOYt

    In Esperanto-based transcription (it would sound like):
    areŝan ebnoudi ŭoŝ
    diŝabehmot endodft emebnoudi

    According to Bashmuric based transliteration
    αρεσζαν φνουτι ουωσζ
    τισζεπ'μοτ 'ντοτφ 'μ'φνοτι
    http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/cce/id/1971

    According to the Library of Congress Romanization table of Coptic
    https://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/romanization/coptic.pdf
      A, b, g, d, e, z, ē, th, I, k, l, m, n, ks, o, p, r, s, t, u, ph, ch, ps, ō, š, f, h., h, č, ky, ti
    are    šan phnouti ouōš
    tišep.hmot 'ntotf 'mphnouti
  • bashandybashandy
    ⲁⲣⲉϣⲁⲛ ⲫϯ ⲟⲩⲱϣ
  • bashandybashandy
    ⲃ ⲅ ⲇ ⲉ ⲍ ⲏ ⲑ ⲓ ⲕ ⲗ ⲙ ⲛ ⲝ ⲟ ⲡ ⲣ ⲥ ⲧ ⲩ ⲫ ⲭ ⲯ ⲱ ϣ ϥ ϧ ϩ ϫ ϭ ϯ
    a b g d e z E 8 i k l m n c o p r s t u F X y O S f x h j q T

    In Latin to Coptic keyboard mapping it is
    areSan FnouT ouOS
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