Alla

Alla

1. A transliteration of the Russian female given name А́лла (Álla).

Alla

1. Obsolete form of Allah.
   • 1819, Henry Tudor Farmer, Imagination; the Maniac's Dream: And Other Poems, page 157:

     […] look at these Christians closely, and you will abhor them. They are the worshippers of gold, not the followers of Alla. The poorest Mussulman has more hospitality than their Cadi; more charity than their Imans; more honesty than their Viziers.

• Laal, Lala, la-la

First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1888. Partly from Russian Алла (Alla), a name of uncertain origin, or shortened from Aleksandra.

Alla f

1. a female given name of Latvian speakers
2. A transliteration of the Russian female given name А́лла (Álla).

• Klāvs Siliņš: Latviešu personvārdu vārdnīca. Riga "Zinātne" 1990, →ISBN
• Population Register of Latvia: Alla was the only given name of 5718 persons in Latvia on May 21st 2010, including Russian speakers.

From Arabic اَللّٰه‎ (allāh, “God”) through the common dialectal form alla with loss of the final -h. Notwithstanding the fact that modern Maltese people descend mainly from converted Muslims, the Arabic word is a general term for “God” used also by Arabic-speaking Jews and Christians (and, in fact, used by them even before the advent of Islam itself).

• IPA^(key): /ˈal.la/
• Homophone: alla

Alla m

1. (religion, monotheism) God