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Allah (, or ;〔("Allah" ). ''Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary''.〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Allah - definition of Allah in English from the Oxford dictionary )〕 (アラビア語:الله) , ) is the Arabic word for God (''al ilāh'', literally "the God"), referring to the God in Abrahamic religions.〔"Islam and Christianity", ''Encyclopedia of Christianity'' (2001): Arabic-speaking Christians and Jews also refer to God as ''Allāh''.〕 The word has cognates in other Semitic languages, including ''Elah'' in Aramaic, ''ʾĒl'' in Canaanite and ''Elohim'' in Hebrew.〔 It is now mainly used by Muslims to refer to God in Islam, but is also used by Arab Christians since pre-Islamic times.〔 It is also often, albeit not exclusively, used by Bábists, Bahá'ís, Indonesian and Maltese Christians, and Mizrahi Jews.〔Columbia Encyclopedia, ''Allah''〕〔 "Allah." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2007. Encyclopædia Britannica〕〔Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa, ''Allah''〕 Christians and Sikhs in West Malaysia also use and have used the word to refer to God. This has caused political and legal controversies there as the law in West Malaysia prohibits non-Islamic uses of the word.〔(Sikhs target of 'Allah' attack ), Julia Zappei, 14 January 2010, ''The New Zealand Herald''. Accessed on line 15 January 2014.〕〔(Malaysia court rules non-Muslims can't use 'Allah' ), 14 Oct. 2013, ''The New Zealand Herald''. Accessed on line 15 January 2014.〕〔(Malaysia's Islamic authorities seize Bibles as Allah row deepens ), Niluksi Koswanage, 2 January 2014, Reuters. Accessed on line 15 January 2014. 〕〔 ==Etymology== The term ''Allāh'' is derived from a contraction of the Arabic definite article ''al-'' "the" and ' "deity, god" to ' meaning "the () deity, God" (, ''ho theos monos'').〔 Cognates of the name "Allāh" exist in other Semitic languages, including Hebrew and Aramaic.〔Columbia Encyclopaedia says: Derived from an old Semitic root referring to the Divine and used in the Canaanite ''El'', the Mesopotamian ''ilu'', and the biblical ''Elohim'' and ''Eloah'', the word Allah is used by all Arabic-speaking Muslims, Christians, Jews, and other monotheists.〕 The correspondfing Aramaic form is ''Elah'' (), but its emphatic state is ''Elaha'' (). It is written as (''(unicode:ʼĔlāhā)'') in Biblical Aramaic and (''(unicode:ʼAlâhâ)'') in Syriac as used by the Assyrian Church, both meaning simply "God".〔(The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon ) – Entry for ''(unicode:ʼlh)'' 〕 Biblical Hebrew mostly uses the plural (but functional singular) form ''Elohim'' (), but more rarely it also uses the singular form ''Eloah'' (). In the Sikh scripture of Guru Granth Sahib, the term ''Allah'' () is used 37 times.〔http://www.srigranth.org 〕 The name was previously used by pagan pre-Islamic Arabs as a reference to a creator deity, possibly the supreme deity in pre-Islamic Arabia.〔 ''Allah'' is unique, the only Deity, creator of the universe and omnipotent. The God in Abrahamic religions.〔〔 There are both similarities and differences between the concept of God as portrayed in the Quran and the Hebrew Bible.〔 It has also been applied to certain living human beings as personifications of the term and concept.〔(Nation of Islam – personification of Allah as Detroit peddler W D Fard ) 〕 There is a Unicode character for the word ''Allāh'', with the code point U+FDF2. Many Arabic type fonts feature special ligatures for Allah.〔 * (Arabic fonts and Mac OS X ) * (Programs for Arabic in Mac OS X ) 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Allah」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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