اللہ
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Punjabi
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian الله (allāh), from Arabic اللّٰه (allāh). First attested as Old Punjabi ਅਲਹੁ (alahu /allahu/). Compare Hindustani اَللہ (allh) / अल्लाह (allāh), Bengali আল্লাহ (allah), Malayalam അല്ലാഹു (allāhu).
Noun
اللہ • (allāh, allā) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਅੱਲਾਹ or ਅੱਲਾ)
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian اَللّٰه (allāh), from Arabic اللّٰه (allāh). First attested as Old Hindi अलह (alaha). Compare Punjabi ਅੱਲਾਹ (allāh), ਅੱਲਾ (allā) / اللہ (allāh, allā), Bengali আল্লাহ (allah), Malayalam അല്ലാഹു (allāhu).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /əl.lɑː/, /əl.lɑːɦ/
Noun
اَللّٰہ or اللہ • (allāh or allā) m (Hindi spelling अल्लाह)
Coordinate terms
Descendants
- → New Sanskrit: अल्लाह (allāha)
Further reading
- “اللہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “اللہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “الہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “اله”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.