Allah

See also: Alláh

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Etymology

Arabic الله (allāh), contraction of اَل (al) + إِلَه (“ilāh”); cognate with the 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): /ˈælə/, /ˈɑːlə/ (anglicized pronunciations)

Proper noun

Allah

1. God, in Islamic or Arabic contexts
   • 1998, Anne Rice, 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

• ayatollah, Hezbollah

Usage notes

While the Arabic الله 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: الله (ar) m (ʾallāh)

  Egyptian Arabic: الله m (ellah , allah)

• Armenian: Ալլահ (Allah)
• Azeri: Allah (az)

  Arabic: الله (az)

  Cyrillic: Аллах (az)

• Bashkir: Аллаһ (Allah), Алла (Alla)
• Belarusian: Алах m (Aláx)
• Bengali: আল্লাহ (allah)
• Bulgarian: Аллах m (Alláh)
• 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
• Esperanto: Alaho m
• Estonian: Allah (et)
• Finnish: Allah (fi)
• French: Allah (fr) m
• Georgian: ალაჰი (alahi)
• German: Allah (de) m
• Greek: Αλλάχ m (Allách)
• Hebrew: אללה m (allāh)
• 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)
• Kannada: ಅಲ್ಲಾಹ (allāh)
• Kazakh: Алла (Alla), Аллах (kk) (Allah)
• Khmer: អាឡា (aalaa)
• Korean: 알라 (ko) (Alla)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: خوا, خودا

• Kyrgyz: Алла (Alla), Аллах (Allah)

• Latvian: Allāhs m
• Lithuanian: Alachas m
• Macedonian: Алах m (Álah)
• Malay:

  Rumi: Allah

  Jawi: الله (ms)

• Malayalam: അല്ലാഹു (allāhu)
• Maltese: Alla (mt)
• Marathi: अल्लाह m (allāha)
• Mongolian: Аллах (Allah)
• Norwegian: Allah m
• Pashto: الله (ps)
• Persian: الله (fa) (Allâh)
• Polish: Allah (pl) m
• Portuguese: Alá m
• Punjabi: ਅੱਲਾ (allā)
• Romanian: Allah m

  Cyrillic: Аллах m

• Russian: Аллах (ru) m (Alláx)
• 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 (Olloh)
• Tamil: அல்லா (ta) (allā)
• Tatar: Аллах (Allah), Алла (tt) (Alla)
• Telugu: అల్లాహ్ (te) (allāh)
• Thai: อัลลอฮ์ (anláw)
• Turkish: Allah (tr)
• Turkmen: Allah

  Cyrillic: Аллах

• Ukrainian: Аллах (uk) m (Alláx)
• Urdu: اللہ m (allāh)
• Uyghur: الله (allه)
• Uzbek: Alloh

  Cyrillic: Аллоҳ

• Vietnamese: Allah, thánh A-la, đức A-la
• Western Panjabi: الله

See also

• Appendix:The 99 names of Allah

Anagrams

• halal

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Albanian

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Etymology

From Arabic الله (allāh), from the root verb اله (’állaha, “to deify”); ultimately from Proto-Semitic *ʾil-.

Proper noun

Allah (definite Allahu, accusative Allahun, dative Allahut)

1. Allah

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Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Allah m

1. Allah

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Malay

Etymology

From Arabic الله (allāh), from the root verb اله (’állaha, “to deify”); ultimately from Proto-Semitic *ʾil-.

Alternative forms

• الله

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Allah (Jawi spelling الله)

1. (Islam) Allah

See also

• Tuhan / توهن

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Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• Alah

Etymology

From Arabic الله (allāh), from the root verb اله (’állaha, “to deify”); 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 الله (allāh), from the root verb اله (’állaha, “to deify”); 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

Zazaki

Etymology

From Arabic الله, from the root verb اله (“to deify”); ultimately from Proto-Semitic *ʾil-.

Proper noun

Allah

1. (Islam) Allah

See also

• Car