الله

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From the root ء ل ه (ʔ l h). Widely theorized to be a contraction of الٱِلٰه (al-ilāh, “God”), from الإلٰه (al-ʔilāh, “the deity”) with loss of initial hamza after the definite article ال (al-). Others suggest it is a variant spelling of the more ancient ألّٰه (allāh), the extra ل (l) serving as an emphatic marker to emphasize distinction, first attested in the Mecca and Taif region, and later in the Quran. Both proposed roots were current in pre-Islamic usage, particularly الإلٰه (al-ilāh) in Nabataean macaronic Arabic-Aramaic usage from which the singular use has presumably spread. Ultimately from Proto-Semitic *ʔil-. Cognate with Classical Syriac ܐܰܠܳܗܳܐ (ʾalāhā), Assyrian Neo-Aramaic ܐܲܠܵܗܵܐ (allāhā), Aramaic אֱלָהָא (ʾĕlāhā), Hebrew אֱלוֹהַּ (ʾelōah), and Old South Arabian 𐩱𐩡𐩠 (ʾlh).

• IPA^(key): /aɫ.ɫaː(h)/ (in isolation)
• IPA^(key): /aɫ.ɫaːh/ (phonemic, in isolation or before a pausa)
• IPA^(key): /aɫ.ɫaː.hu/ (classical, nominative form)

  Egypt, Levant, Sudan: IPA^(key): [ɑɫˈɫɑː]

  Central Arabia: IPA^(key): [ɑɫˈɫɑː]

  Western Arabia: IPA^(key): [aɫˈɫaː]

  Eastern Arabia: IPA^(key): [ˈɑɫɫɐ]

  Morocco, Tunisia: IPA^(key): [ɑɫˈɫɑːh]

  Classical: IPA^(key): [ʔalˤlˤaːh], [ʔalːˤaːh]

• (after a or u): /ɫ.ɫaːh/

  Egypt, Levant, Sudan: IPA^(key): [ɫɫɑː]

  Central Arabia: IPA^(key): [ɫɫɑː]

  Eastern Arabia: IPA^(key): [ɫɫɐ]

  Morocco, Tunisia: IPA^(key): [ɫɫɑːh]

• (after i): /l.laːh/

  Egypt, central Arabia: IPA^(key): [llæː]

  Levant, Sudan, Western Arabia: IPA^(key): [llaː]

  Tunisia: IPA^(key): [llɛːh]

  Morocco: IPA^(key): [llæːh]

اللّٰه • (allāh) m

1. (monotheism) God
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 112:1-4:

     قُلْ هُوَ ٱللّٰهُ أَحَدٌ ٱللّٰهُ ٱلصَّمَدُ لَمْ يَلِدْ وَلَمْ يُولَدْ وَلَمْ يَكُنْ لَهُ كُفُوًا أَحَدٌ

     qul huwa llāhu ʔaḥadun llāhu ṣ-ṣamadu lam yalid wa-lam yūlad wa-lam yakun lahu kufuwan ʔaḥadun

     Say, “He is God, [who is] One, God, the Eternal Refuge. He neither begets nor is born, nor is there to Him any equivalent.”

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, John 3:16:

     لِأَنَّهُ هٰكَذَا أَحَبَّ ٱللهُ ٱلْعَالَمَ حَتَّى بَذَلَ ٱبْنَهُ ٱلْوَحِيدَ، لِكَيْ لَا يَهْلِكَ كُلُّ مَنْ يُؤْمِنُ بِهِ، بَلْ يَكُونُ لَهُ الْحَيَاةُ ٱلْأَبَدِيَّةُ.

     For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.

   • 1865 CE, Bible (SVD), Gospel of John, 11:4:

     فَلَمَّا سَمِعَ يَسُوعُ قَالَ: هٰذَا ٱلْمَرَضُ لَيْسَ لِلْمَوْتِ بَلْ لِأَجْلِ مَجْدِ اللّٰهِ لِيَتَمَجَّدَ ٱبْنُ اللّٰهِ بِهِ.

     fa-lammā samiʕa yasūʕu qāla: hāḏā l-maraḍu laysa li-l-mawti bal li-ʔajli majdi llāhi li-yatamajjada bnu llāhi bihi.

     When Jesus heard it, he said: This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby.

• In Islamic contexts, this word may alternatively be translated into English as Allah. Note, however, that the Arabic word is just as neutral and general as English God, and does not express any particularly Islamic notion at all. الله (allāh) is the Arabic word used by Christians, Jews, and other monotheists to describe the God of their own religions, and is cognate to the words used in Hebrew and Syriac. The Jewish sage Saadia Gaon even used الله (allāh) to translate the Tetragrammaton in his Arabic translation of the Torah.

• Maltese: Alla, alla

Borrowings:

From يَا اللّٰه (yā llāh, “O God”): (see also the descendants at يَاٱللَّٰه (yāllāh))

• أَلَّهَ (ʔallaha, “to deify”)
• إلٰه (ʔilāh, “god, deity”)
• الرَّبّ (ar-rabb, “the Lord”)

• Jeffery, Arthur (1938) “اَللّٰه”, in The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qurʾān (Gaekwad’s Oriental Series; 79), Baroda: Oriental Institute, page 66
• Nehmé, Laïla (2017) “New dated inscriptions (Nabataean and pre-Islamic Arabic) from a site near al-Jawf, ancient Dūmah, Saudi Arabia”, in Arabian Epigraphic Notes‎^[1], volume 3, pages 121–164
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “ءله”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

• Allah on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• هلال

Borrowed from Arabic اللّٰه (allāh).

الله (allāh, ällāh) (no plural)

1. (religion) God

   Synonyms: خدا (xüdā), تینگری (teŋri)

2. (Islam) Allah, God in Islam

• Uyghur: ئاللاھ (allah)
• Uzbek: Alloh

From Arabic الله (allāh).

• IPA^(key): [(ʔ)ɑɫˈɫɑː(h)]

الله • (allā) m

1. (monotheism) God

   Synonym: ربّنا (rabbina)

• والله (wallāhi, “by God”)

الله • (allā)

1. Signals amazement, approval, or admiration: wow, amazing!

Inherited from Arabic الله (allāh).

• IPA^(key): /aɫ.ɫaː(h)/

الله • (aḷḷā) m

1. (monotheism) God

الله • (aḷḷā)

1. oh my God (to something beautiful and exciting)

• IPA^(key): /aɫ.ɫa(h)/

الله • (aḷḷa)

1. oh my God (to something shocking)

The pronunciation with the final long vowel is used as an interjection to something beautiful and exciting, while the pronunciation with the short vowel is used as an interjection to something shocking.

• إله (ilāh, “deity”)

اَللّٰه (Allâh) (definite accusative اَللّٰه‌ؽ)

1. Arabic spelling of Allâh (“God”)

الله

1. Jawi spelling of Allah.‎

Inherited from Arabic الله (allāh).

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔɑlˤlˤɑ/

الله • (ʔaḷḷa) m

1. (monotheism) God

   Coordinate terms: رب (rabb, “Lord”), (Christianity) الرب (r-rabb, literally “the Lord”)

   هو ملحد، ما بيآمن بشي إسمو الله

   huwwe mulḥid, ma biʔāmin bi šī ʔismo ʔaḷḷa.

   He’s an atheist, he doesn’t believe in such a thing as God.

2. (Islam) Allah

• Used for God by all or almost all religions of the Levant, including Islam, Christianity, Druzism, Alawism, and, inasmuch as Jews continue to speak Levantine Judeo-Arabic dialects, Judaism, as well as other minority religions. Some religions have additional terms for God specific to their traditions.

Borrowed from Arabic اللّٰه (allāh); ultimately from Proto-Semitic *ʾil-.

الله • (Allah)

1. (Islam) Allah, God

• Turkish: Allah

• تكری (tañrı)

Borrowed from Arabic اللّٰه (allāh); ultimately from Proto-Semitic *ʾil-.

الله • (allāh)

1. Allah

• خدای

Borrowed from Arabic اَللّٰه (allāh); ultimately from Proto-Semitic *ʾil-.

Readings
Classical reading?	allāh
Dari reading?	allāh
Iranian reading?	allâh
Tajik reading?	alloh

اَلله • (allâh)

1. (usually Islam) God, Allah

   Synonym: خُدا (xodâ)

   • c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 122:

     ای دل از غیر مجو یاری واز خصم مترس
     دولت و سلطنت آنست که الله دهد

     ay dil az ġayr majō yārī w-az xasm matars
     dawlat u saltanat ān ast ki allāh dihad

     O heart, seek no support from others and fear not the adversary;
     Sovereignty and kingship are what is given by Allah.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “الله”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

Inherited from Arabic الله (allāh).

• IPA^(key): /ʔalˤ.lˤa/, [ˈʔɑlˤ.lˤɑ]
• IPA^(key): /ʔalˤ.lˤaːh/, [ʔɑlˤˈlˤɑːh]

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الله • (ʔaḷḷa, ʔaḷḷāh) m

1. (monotheism) God, Allah

• يلا (yaḷḷa)
• والله (waḷḷa)
• لألله (laʔaḷḷa)

Borrowed from Arabic الله (ʔaḷḷāh).

الله (allāh)

1. (Islam) Allah, God