الله

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, ultimately from Proto-Semitic *ʾil-. Compare Classical Syriac ܐܰܠܳܗܳܐ‎ (ʾalāhā), Aramaic אֱלָהָא‎ (ʾĕlāhā), אֱלוֹהַּ \ אֱלֹהַּ‎ (ʾĕlōah), Old South Arabian 𐩱𐩡𐩠‎.

• 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]

  Peninsular (excluding Gulf): IPA^(key): [aɫˈɫaː]

  Gulf: IPA^(key): [ˈɐɫɫɐ]

• (after a or u): /ɫˈɫɑː/

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

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

  Gulf: IPA^(key): [ɫɫɐ]

• (after i): /lˈlaːh/

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

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

  Tunisia: IPA^(key): [lˈlɛːh]

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.

• 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.

• اللّٰهُ أَكْبَرُ‎ (allāhu ʾakbaru)
• بِسْمِ ٱللّٰهِ‎ (bi-smi llāhi, “in the name of God”)
  • بِسْمِ ٱللَّٰهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ‎ (bismi llāhi r-raḥmāni r-raḥīmi)
• إِنْ شَاءَ ٱللّٰهُ‎ (ʾin šāʾa llāhu, “if God wills”)
• اللّٰهُمَّ‎ (allāhumma, “God; O God”)
• سُبْحَانَ ٱللّٰهِ‎ (subḥāna llāhi, “glory be to God”)
• أَسْتَغْفِرُ ٱللّٰهَ‎ (ʾastaḡfiru llāha)
• اَلْحَمْدُ لِلَّٰهِ‎ (al-ḥamdu lillāhi)

• Judeo-Arabic: אללה‎ (allāhu)
• Maltese: alla, Alla
• North Levantine Arabic: الله‎ (ʾAlla)

Borrowings:

• أَلَّهَ‎ (ʾallaha, “to deify”)
• إلٰه‎ (ʾilāh, “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

• Allah

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

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

الله (Rumi spelling Allah‎)

1. (Islam) Allah

• Tuhan / توهن‎

From Arabic الله‎ (allāh).

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔɑlˁlˁɑ/

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 • (Allâh)

1. (Islam) Allah, God

• Turkish: Allah

• تڭری‎ (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)