Allah ("God," in Arabic)
ALLAH ("God," in Arabic)
: The root of the word Allah most likely comes from the Arabic ilah (God) and from the Aramaic alaha (the God). A word close to it, Al-lat, designates one of the Meccan divinities (Allat or Hobal) of the Thamuds, whose statue was set up in the Kaʿba with two other divinities, Al-Uzza and Manat. So "Allah" is just the Arabic name for God: Christians and Jews also use the word when speaking or writing Arabic to refer to the monotheistic deity they believe in.
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