Arabic vocabulary

إِلَٰهًاa god in Arabic

إِلَٰهًا is how you say “a god” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.

Example sentences

وَقَالَ تَعَالَى وَالَّذِينَ لَا يَدْعُونَ مَعَ اللهِ إِلَهًا آخَرَ وَلَا يَقْتُلُونَ النَّفْسَ الَّتِي حَرَّمَ اللهُ إِلَّا بِالْحَقِّ وَلَا يَزْنُونَ
And the Exalted said: And those who do not call upon any other god with Allah, and do not take the life which Allah has forbidden except for a just cause, and do not commit adultery.
إِلَٰهًا — a god. An indefinite noun 'a god' (no al- 'the'), the object of 'invoke' in the accusative (object) form. Its indefinite shape keeps it general - any other deity at all. As the thing wrongly invoked it is what the negated verb would act upon.
From: The Gravity of Murder →

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