Allah

See also: Alláh

English

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Etymology

From Arabic اللّٰه‏ (allāh), contraction of اَل‏ (al-, “the”) + إِلَه‏ (ʾilah, “deity”); cognate with the Aramaic אלה‏ (aláh) and אלהא‏ (aláhâ), and Hebrew אֵל‏ (él), אֱלוֹהַּ \ אֱלֹהַּ‏ (elóah) and אֱלוֹהִים \ אֱלֹהִים‏ (elohím); ultimately from Proto-Semitic *ʾil-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈlɑː/, /ˈɑːˌlɑː/, /ˌɑːˈlɑː/ (pronunciation which is close to the Arabic pronunciation [ʔalˁˈlˁɑːh])
• IPA^(key): /ˈæ.lə/, /ˈɑːlə/ (anglicized pronunciations)

Proper noun

Allah (uncountable)

1. God, in Islamic or Arabic contexts
   • 1998, Rice, Anne, The Vampire Armand, New York: Knopf, ISBN 9780679454472, OL 354828M, page 273:

     We are too much men and women; we are yet formed in the image of the Creator, and what can we say of Him with any certainty except that He, whoever He may be—Christ, Yahweh, Allah—He made us, did He not, because even He in His Infinite Perfection could not bear to be alone.

   What is the Shia Islamic view on the attributes of Allah?

Derived terms

• Allahabad
• ayatollah
• Hezbollah

Usage notes

While the Arabic اللّٰه‏ (allāh) is used generically to refer to God in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic contexts, current English usage almost always restricts the corresponding term Allah to Islamic contexts only. Various newspaper style manuals recommend translating the Arabic word in English as God, as this better reflects Arabic usage, but the term is often left untranslated in Islamic contexts. Thus either “Allah is great” or “God is great” may be seen.

Translations

God, in Islam

• Adyghe: Алахь (Ālāḥ)
• Afrikaans: Allah
• Albanian: Allah (sq) m, Allahu (sq) m
• Amharic: አላህ (ʾälah)
• Arabic: اللّٰه‏‎ (ar) m (allāh)
• Armenian: Ալլահ (hy) (Allah)
• Assamese: আল্লাহ (allah)
• Avar: Аллагь (Allah)
• Azeri: Allah (az)

  Arabic: الله‏‎ (az)

  Cyrillic: Аллах (az)

• Bashkir: Аллаһ (Allah), Алла (Alla)
• Belarusian: Ала́х m (Aláx), Ала́г m (Aláh) (obsolete)
• Bengali: আল্লাহ (bn) (allah)
• Bulgarian: Алла́х m (Alláh)
• Burmese: အလ္လာဟ် (allah)
• Catalan: Al·là
• Chechen: Аллахӏ (Allah)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 安拉 (zh) (Ānlā), 阿拉 (zh) (Ālā), 真主 (zh) (Zhēnzhǔ)

• Crimean Tatar: Alla
• Czech: Alláh (cs) m
• Danish: Allah
• Dhivehi: އައްލާހު‏‎ (alāhu)
• Dutch: Allah (nl) m
• Dzongkha: ཁ་ཆེ་་ལྷ། (kha che lha)
• Esperanto: Alaho m
• Estonian: Allah (et)
• Finnish: Allah (fi)
• French: Allah (fr) m
• Galician: Alá (gl)
• Georgian: ალაჰი (alahi)
• German: Allah (de) m
• Greek: Αλλάχ (el) m (Allách)
• Gujarati: અલ્લાહ m (allāh)
• Hausa: Allah
• Hebrew: אַלְלָה‏‎ m (allá)
• Hindi: अल्लाह (hi) m (allāh)
• Hungarian: Allah (hu)
• Indonesian: Allah (id)
• Irish: Allah m
• Japanese: アッラーフ (Arrāfu), アッラー (Arrā), アラー (Arā)
• Javanese: ꦄꦭ꧀ꦭꦃ (jv) (allah)
• Judeo-Arabic: אללה‏‎ m (allāhu)
• Kannada: ಅಲ್ಲಾಹ (allāha)
• Kazakh: Алла (Alla), Аллаһ (Allah), Алда (Alda)
• Khmer: អាឡា (aalaa)
• Korean: 알라 (Alla)
• Kumyk: Аллагь (Allah)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ئەڵڵا‏‎

  Kurmanji: Xwedê (ku), Ellah (ku), Xweda (ku), Xuda (ku)

  Sorani: خوا‏‎, خودا‏‎

• Kyrgyz: Алла (Alla), Аллах (Allah)
• Lao: ອັນເລາະ ('an lǫ)

• Latin: Allah m
• Latvian: Allāhs m
• Lezgi: Аллагь (Allah)
• Lithuanian: Alachas m
• Low German:

  German Low German: Allah (nds)

• Macedonian: Алах m (Alah)
• Malay:

  Jawi: الله‏‎ (ms)

  Rumi: Allah

• Malayalam: അല്ലാഹു (allāhu)
• Maltese: Alla (mt) m
• Marathi: अल्लाह m (allāh)
• Mongolian: Аллах (Allah)
• Norwegian: Allah m
• Oriya: ଅଲ୍ଲାହ (ôllahô)
• Pashto: الله‏‎ (ps) m (allãh)
• Persian: الله‏‎ (fa) (allâh)
• Polish: Allah (pl) m, Allach (pl) m
• Portuguese: Alá (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਅੱਲਾ m (allā)
• Romanian: Allah m

  Cyrillic: Аллах m

• Russian: Алла́х (ru) m (Alláx)
• Sanskrit: अल्लाह् m (allāh)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Аллах m, Алах m

  Roman: Allah m, Alah m

• Sinhalese: අල්ලාහ් (allāh)
• Slovak: Alah m
• Slovene: Alah m
• Somali: Allaah
• Spanish: Alá (es) m
• Swedish: Allah (sv)
• Tajik: Оллоҳ (tg) (Olloh)
• Tamil: அல்லா (ta) (allā)
• Tatar: Аллах (Allax), Алла (tt) (Alla)
• Telugu: అల్లాహ్ (te) (allāh)
• Thai: อัลลอฮ์ (an-lɔ́)
• Tibetan: ཨ་ལ (a la)
• Tigrinya: አላህ (ʾälah)
• Turkish: Allah (tr)
• Turkmen: Allah

  Cyrillic: Аллах

• Ukrainian: Алла́х (uk) m (Alláx)
• Urdu: اللہ‏‎ (ur) m (allāh)
• Uyghur: ئاللاھ‏‎ (ug) (allah)
• Uzbek: Alloh

  Cyrillic: Аллоҳ

• Vietnamese: A-la (vi), thánh A-la, đức A-la
• Western Panjabi: الله‏‎
• Yakut: Аллаах (Allaax)
• Yiddish: אַלאַ‏‎ m (ala), אללה‏‎ m (ala)
• Yoruba: Allah

See also

• Appendix:The 99 names of Allah

Further reading

• Names of God in Islam on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• halal

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Albanian

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Allah (definite Allahu, accusative Allahun, dative Allahut)

1. Allah

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Allah m

1. Allah

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German

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Proper noun

Allah m (genitive Allahs)

1. Allah

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Hausa

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic اللّٰه‏ (allāh).

Proper noun

Allàh m

1. Allah, God

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Indonesian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /allah/, [aɫɫah], [ɔɫɫɔh]
• Rhymes: -ah
• IPA^(key): /allah/, [aɫɫah] (Only in Christian lexicon)
• Rhymes: -ah

Proper noun

Allah

1. (Islam) Allah

Noun

Allah

1. (Christianity) Elohim, God (See: allah. In Indonesian translations of the bible, "elohim" is translated into "allah" instead of "ilah" in contradiction with Indonesian Islamic terminology)

   "Akulah TUHAN (YHWH), Allahmu (your God), yang membawa engkau keluar dari tanah Mesir, dari tempat perbudakan." Exodus 20:2 (TB 1974)

   "Kalau kamu mengakui bahwa Allahmu (your God) adalah TUHAN (YHWH), maka ikutilah Dia, namun kalau allahmu (your god) adalah Baal, ikutilah dia." 1 Kings 18:21 (AYT Draft)

See also

• Tuhan

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Malay

Etymology

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

Alternative forms

• الله‏

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /allah/, [aɫɫah], [ɔɫɫɔh]
• Rhymes: -ah

Proper noun

Allah (Jawi spelling الله)

1. (Islam) Allah

See also

• Tuhan / توهن‏

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Allah m

1. Alternative spelling of Alá

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Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• Alah

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Allah m (Cyrillic spelling Аллах)

1. (Islam) Allah

See also

• Bog

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Turkish

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Allah (definite accusative Allah'ı, plural Allah'lar)

1. (Islam) Allah

Declension

    declension of Allah

	singular	plural
nominative	Allah	Allahlar / Allah'lar
accusative	Allah'ı	Allahları / Allah'ları
dative	Allah'a	Allahlara / Allah'lara
locative	Allah'ta	Allahlarda / Allah'larda
ablative	Allah'tan	Allahlardan / Allah'lardan
genitive	Allah'ın	Allahların / Allah'ların

    possessive of Allah

	singular	plural
benim (my)	Allah'ım	Allahlarım / Allah'larım
senin (your)	Allah'ın	Allahların / Allah'ların
onun (his/her/its)	Allah'ı	Allahları / Allah'ları
bizim (our)	Allah'ımız	Allahlarımız / Allah'larımız
sizin (your)	Allah'ınız	Allahlarınız / Allah'larınız
onların (their)	Allah'ı / Allahları / Allah'ları	Allahları / Allah'ları

See also

• tanrı

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Zazaki

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Allah ?

1. (Islam) Allah

See also

• Car