الله

Etymology

Contraction of الْإِلٰه‎ (al-ʾilāh, “the god”) from the root ء ل ه‎ (ʾ-l-h), both current in pre-Islamic usage, particularly in Nabataean macaronic Arabic-Aramaic usage from which the singular use has presumably spread. Compare Aramaic אֱלָהָא‎ (ʾĕlāhā), Hebrew אֵל‎ (ʾēl), אֱלוֹהַּ \ אֱלֹהַּ‎ (ʾĕlōah), אֱלוֹהִים \ אֱלֹהִים‎ (ʾĕlōhīm), Sabaean 𐩱𐩡𐩠‎; all ultimately from Proto-Semitic *ʾil-.

Pronunciation

• 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)

  • (file)

    pronunciation in isolation

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

  West Asia, Tunisia: IPA^(key): [ɑɫˈɫɑː]

  Arabian Peninsula: IPA^(key): [aɫˈɫaː]

• (after a or u): /ɫˈɫɑː/

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

  West Asia, Tunisia: IPA^(key): [ɫˈɫɑː]

• (after i): /lˈlaːh/

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

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

  Tunisia: IPA^(key): [lˈlɛːh]

Proper noun

اللّٰه • (allāh) m

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

     ‏قُلْ هُوَ ٱللّٰهُ أَحَدٌ ۝ ٱللّٰهُ الصَّمَدُ ۝ لَمْ يَلِدْ وَلَمْ يُولَدْ ۝ وَلَمْ يَكُنْ لَهُ كُفُوًا أَحَدٌ ۝‎

     qul huwa llāhu ʾaḥadun ۝ allāhu ṣ-ṣamadu ۝ lam yalid walam yūlad ۝ walam yakun lahū kufuwan ʾaḥadun ۝

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

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

     ‏فَلَمَّا سَمِعَ يَسُوعُ قَالَ: هٰذَا الْمَرَضُ لَيْسَ لِلْمَوْتِ بَلْ لِأَجْلِ مَجْدِ اللّٰهِ لِيَتَمَجَّدَ ابْنُ اللّٰهِ بِهِ.‎‎

     fa-lammā samiʿa yasūʿu qāla: hāḏā l-maraḍu laysa li-l-mawti bal li-ʾajli 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.

References

• 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

Anagrams

• هلال‎

Alternative forms

• Allah

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /allah/, [allah], [ɔllɔh]

Proper noun

الله (Rumi spelling Allah‎)

1. (Islam) Allah

Etymology

From Arabic الله‎ (allāh).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔɑlˁlˁɑ/

Proper noun

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.

Etymology

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

Noun

الله • (Allâh)

1. (Islam) Allah, God

Etymology

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

Proper noun

الله • (əllɑ)

1. Allah

Etymology

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

Noun

الله • (allâh)

1. God, Allah