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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Hebrew הַלְלוּיָהּ (hal'luyáh, “Praise Yah”).
Pronunciation
Interjection
hallelujah
- An exclamation used in songs of praise or thanksgiving to God.
1611, The Holy Bible, (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, Revelation 19:1, column 2:AND after theſe things I heard a great voyce of much people in heauen, ſaying, Alleluia: ſaluation, and glorie, and honour, and power vnto the Lord our God:
- (by extension) A general expression of gratitude or adoration.
Hallelujah! It’s finally the weekend!
Derived terms
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exclamation to praise God
- Aghwan: 𐔰𐔾𐔶𐔾𐕒𐕡𐔺𐔰 (alēluya)
- Amharic: ሃሌሉያ (haleluya)
- Arabic: هَلِّلُويَا (hallilūyā) (Christian), هَلُولِيَا (halūliyā), الْحَمْدُ لِلّٰهِ (al-ḥamdu lillāhi) (general)
- Aramaic:
- Syriac: ܗܲܠܹܠܘܼܝܵܐ (hallēlūyā)
- Armenian: ալելուիա (hy) (aleluia)
- Belarusian: алілу́я (alilúja)
- Bulgarian: алелу́я (alelúja), алилу́я (bg) (alilúja)
- Catalan: al·leluia (ca)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 哈利路亞／哈利路亚 (haa1 lei1 lu1 jaa4, haa1 li1 lu1 jaa4)
- Hakka: 哈利路亞／哈利路亚 (hâ-li-lu-yá)
- Hokkien: ha-lé-lú-iah
- Mandarin: 哈利路亞／哈利路亚 (zh) (hālìlùyà), 阿利路亞／阿利路亚 (ālìlùyà), 阿肋路亞／阿肋路亚 (ālèlùyà) (Catholic)
- Czech: aleluja, halejuja
- Danish: halleluja
- Dutch: hallelujah, alleluja (nl), halleluja (nl)
- Esperanto: haleluja (eo)
- Estonian: halleluuja (et)
- Finnish: halleluja (fi)
- French: alléluia (fr)
- Georgian: ალილუია (aliluia)
- German: halleluja (de)
- Greek: αλληλούια (el) (alliloúia)
- Ancient: ἀλληλούϊα (allēloúïa)
- Hebrew: הַלְּלוּיָהּ (he) (hallelúyah)
- Hindi: हलिलुय (haliluy)
- Hungarian: alleluja (hu)
- Icelandic: hallelúja
- Indonesian: haleluya (id)
- Interlingua: alleluia
- Irish: aililiú
- Italian: alleluia (it)
- Japanese: ハレルヤ (hareruya)
- Kannada: ಹಲ್ಲೆಲೂಯಾ (hallelūyā)
- Khmer: ហាលេលូយ៉ា (haaleiluuyaa)
- Korean: 할렐루야 (hallelluya)
- Latin: allelūia
- Lingala: aleluya
- Lisu: ꓧ-ꓡꓲ-ꓡꓴ-ꓬ (xɑ-li-lu-jɑ)
- Lithuanian: aleliùja
- Lombard: alleluia
- Macedonian: алелу̀ја (alelùja)
- Malay: hallelujah, halleluyah, alleluia
- Malayalam: ഹല്ലേലൂയ (hallēlūya)
- Maori: hareruia
- Nias: haleluya
- Norwegian: halleluja
- Nynorsk: halleluja
- Persian: هلهلویا (hale-luya)
- Polish: alleluja (pl), hosanna (pl)
- Portuguese: aleluia (pt)
- Romanian: aliluia (ro) (used by the Orthodox Church), aleluia (ro) (used by Catholics and Protestants)
- Russian: аллилу́йя (ru) (allilújja), сла́ва бо́гу (ru) (sláva bógu), ура́ (ru) (urá)
- Sardinian: alleluia, allelujah, halleluyah
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: алелуја
- Roman: aleluja (sh)
- Slovak: aleluja (sk), halejuja
- Slovene: aleluja
- Spanish: aleluya (es) f
- Swedish: halleluja (sv)
- Tagalog: aleluya
- Tamil: அல்லேலூயா (ta) (allēlūyā)
- Telugu: హల్లెలూయా (hallelūyā)
- Thai: อัลเลลูยา (an-lee-luu-yaa), อาเลลูยา (aa-lee-luu-yaa), ฮาเลลูยา (haa-lee-luu-yaa)
- Turkish: haleluya, alleluya, aleluya, elhamdülillah (tr)
- Ukrainian: алілу́я (alilúja), алилу́я (uk) (alylúja)
- Urdu: ہللی (haliluy)
- Vietnamese: hallelujah (vi)
- Yami: haliloya
- Yoruba: alelúyà
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general exclamation of gratitude
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Noun
hallelujah (plural hallelujahs)
- A shout of “Hallelujah”.
1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. , London: [Samuel Simmons], , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC, lines 633–634:So ſung they, and the Empyrean rung, / With Halleluiahs: Thus was Sabbath kept.
- (music) A song of praise to God; a musical composition based on the word "Hallelujah".
- (in the plural) General praise.
1855, Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom. , New York, Auburn, N.Y.: Miller, Orton & Mulligan , →OCLC, part II (Life as a Freeman), page 441:Who so stolid and selfish, that would not give his voice to swell the hallelujahs of a nation’s jubilee, when the chains of servitude had been torn from his limbs?
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Verb
hallelujah (third-person singular simple present hallelujahs, present participle hallelujahing, simple past and past participle hallelujahed)
- (intransitive) To cry "hallelujah" in praise.
1971, Jack Kerouac, chapter 1, in Pic:My aunt Gastonia […] she'd seen the Lord more times than they could ever count, and hallelujahed and hallelujahed, said, “While's all this the Gospel word and true, […]
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