The corresponding Aramaic form is ʼElāh ( אלה), but its emphatic state is ʼElāhā ( אלהא).
Ĭognates of the name "Allāh" exist in other Semitic languages, including Hebrew and Aramaic. An inscription using the Ancient South Arabian script in Old Arabic from Qaryat al-Fāw reads, "'to Kahl and lh and ʿAththar' ( b-khl w-lh w-ʿṯr)". The use of "Allah" as the name of a deity appears as early as the first century. The majority of modern scholars subscribe to the latter theory, and view the loanword hypothesis with skepticism. Indeed, there is "the interchangeability of al-ilāh and allāh in early Arabic poetry even when composed by the Christian ʿAdī ibn Zayd".
Most considered it to be derived from a contraction of the Arabic definite article al- "the" and ilāh " deity, god" to al-lāh meaning "the deity, the God". Others held that it was borrowed from Syriac or Hebrew. Grammarians of the Basra school regarded it as either formed "spontaneously" ( murtajal) or as the definite form of lāh (from the verbal root lyh with the meaning of "lofty" or "hidden"). The etymology of the word Allāh has been discussed extensively by classical Arab philologists. Similar usage by Christians and Sikhs in Peninsular Malaysia has recently led to political and legal controversies. It is also often, albeit not exclusively, used in this way by Bábists, Baháʼís, Mandaeans, Indonesian and Maltese Christians, and Sephardi Jews, as well as by the Gagauz people. Allah has been used as a term for God by Muslims (both Arab and non-Arab), Judaeo-Arabic-speaking Jews, and even Arab Christians after the term " al- ilāh" and "Allah" were used interchangeably in Classical Arabic by the majority of Arabs who had become Muslims. Muhammad used the word Allah to indicate the Islamic conception of God. The pre-Islamic Arabs worshipped a supreme deity whom they called Allah, alongside other lesser deities. The word Allah has been used by Arabic people of different religions since pre-Islamic times. The word is thought to be derived by contraction from al- ilāh, which means "the god", and is linguistically related to the Aramaic words Elah and Syriac ܐܲܠܵܗܵܐ (ʼAlāhā) and the Hebrew word El ( Elohim) for God. In the English language, the word generally refers to God in Islam. l ɑː/ Arabic: الله, romanized: Allāh, IPA: ( listen)) is the common Arabic word for God.
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