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Allah.

God, in Islamic or Arabic contexts

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Meaning & usage

name/əˈlɑː//ˈæ.lə/
  1. God, in Islamic or Arabic contexts

    What is the Shia Islamic view on the attributes of Allah?
Where this word comes from

From Arabic اللّٰه (allāh), contraction of اَل (al-, “the”) + إِلَه (ʔilah, “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-.-.

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