الله

Contraction of الٱِلٰه (al-ilāh, “God”), from الإلٰه‎ (al-ʔilāh, “the deity”) with loss of initial hamza after the definite article ال‎ (al-). From the root ء ل ه‎ (ʔ-l-h), both current in pre-Islamic usage, particularly in Nabataean macaronic Arabic-Aramaic usage from which the singular use has presumably spread. Ultimately from Proto-Semitic *ʔil-. Compare Classical Syriac ܐܲܠܵܗ‎ (ʾalāh), Aramaic אֱלָהָ‎ (ʾelāh), Hebrew אֱלוֹהַּ‎ (ʾelōah), and Old South Arabian 𐩱𐩡𐩠‎ (ʾlh).

• IPA^(key): /aɫˈɫaː(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]

• (after a or u): /ɫˈɫɑː/

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

  Central Arabia: IPA^(key): [ɫˈɫɑː]

  Eastern Arabia: IPA^(key): [ɫːɐ]

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

• (after i): /lˈlaːh/

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

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

  Tunisia: IPA^(key): [lːɛːh]

  Morocco: IPA^(key): [lːæːh]

اللّٰه • (allāh) m

1. (monotheism, Islam) 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.”

   • 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 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 translation of the Torah.

• اللَّٰهُمَّ‎ (allāhumma, “God; O God”)
• اللّٰهُ أَكْبَرُ‎ (allāhu ʔakbaru, “God is greater”)
• بِسْمِ ٱللّٰهِ‎ (bi-smi llāhi, “in the name of God”)
  • بِسْمِ ٱللَّٰهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ‎ (bismi llāhi r-raḥmāni r-raḥīmi)
• إِنْ شَاءَ ٱللّٰهُ‎ (ʔin šāʔa llāhu, “if God wills”)
• سُبْحَانَ ٱللّٰهِ‎ (subḥāna llāhi, “glory be to God”)
• أَسْتَغْفِرُ ٱللّٰهَ‎ (ʔastaḡfiru llāha, “I seek forgiveness from God”)
• ٱلْحَمْدُ لِلَّٰهِ‎ (l-ḥamdu lillāhi, “all praise is for God”)
• آيَةُ الله‎ (ʔāyatu llāh, “Ayatollah, sign of God”)

• 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”)

• Allah on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• 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, 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

• هلال‎

From Arabic الله‎ (allāh).

• IPA^(key): /aɫːaː/

الله • (allā) m

1. (monotheism) God

الله • (allā)

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

• IPA^(key): /aɫːa/

الله • (alla)

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”)

اَلله (Allâh) (definite accusative اَلله‌ؽ‎)

1. Arabic spelling of Allâh (“God”)

الله

1. Jawi spelling of Allah

From Arabic الله‎ (allāh).

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔɑlˤlˤɑ/

الله • (ʾAlla) m

1. (monotheism) God

   ‏هوه ملحد، ما بيآمن بشي اسمو الله‎

   Huwi mulḥid, ma biʾāmin bi-ši ismu Alla.

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

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 • (əllɑ)

1. Allah

• خدای‎

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

الله • (allâh)

1. God, Allah

• خدا‎ (xodâ)

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)

From Arabic الله‎ (ʔaḷḷāh).

الله (allāh)

1. (Islam) Allah, God