Ilah

Short description: Arabic word for god

ʾIlāh (Arabic: إله; plural: آلهة ʾālihat) is an Arabic term meaning "god". In Arabic, ilah refers to anyone or anything that is worshipped.[1] The feminine is ʾilāhat (إلاهة, meaning "goddess"); with the article, it appears as al-ʾilāhat (الإلاهة). The Arabic word for God (Allāh) is thought to be derived from it (in a proposed earlier form al-Lāh) though this is disputed.[2][3] ʾIlāh is cognate to Northwest Semitic ʾēl and Akkadian ilum. The word is from a Proto-Semitic archaic biliteral ʔ-L meaning "god" (possibly with a wider meaning of "strong"), which was extended to a regular triliteral by the addition of a h (as in Hebrew ʾelōah, ʾelōhim). The word is spelled either إلٰه with an optional diacritic alif to mark the ā only in Qur'anic texts or (more rarely) with a full alif, إلاه.

The term is used throughout the Quran in passages discussing the existence of God or the beliefs in other divinities by non-Muslims. Notably, the first statement of the šahādah (the Muslim confession of faith) is "There is no god (ʾilāh) except the God (Allāh)."

## See also

* Arabian mythology
* Al-Lāt
* Al-‘Uzzá
* Manāt
* El (deity)
* Eloah
* Elohim
* History of Arabia
* Pre-Islamic Arabia
* Religion in pre-Islamic Arabia
* Tribes of Arabia
* Religions of the ancient Near East
* Daeva
* Dingir
* Yahwism

## Sources

* Georgii Wilhelmi Freytagii, Lexicon Arabico-Latinum. Librairie du Liban, Beirut, 1975.
* J. Milton Cowan, The Hans Wehr Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic. 4th edn. Spoken Language Services, Ithaca (NY), 1979.

References

1. ↑ Wehr, Hans (1979) (in en). A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. ISBN 978-3-447-02002-2. https://books.google.com/books?id=WTak55pG-_IC.
2. ↑ Zeki Saritoprak (2006). "Allah". in Oliver Leaman. The Qur'an: An Encyclopedia. Routledge. p. 34. ISBN 9780415326391. https://books.google.com/books?id=isDgI0-0Ip4C&q=ilah.
3. ↑ Vincent J. Cornell (2005). "God: God in Islam". in Lindsay Jones. Encyclopedia of Religion. 5 (2nd ed.). MacMillan Reference USA. p. 724.

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