what is allah
[ÊalË¤ËlË¤ÉËh]. ) is the Arabic word for God (al ilÄh, literally the God). The word has cognates in other Semitic languages, including Elah in Aramaic, Ê¾Äl in Canaanite and Elohim in Hebrew. It is used mainly by Muslims to refer to God in Islam, but it has also been used by Arab Christians since pre-Islamic times.s Hebrew and Arabic are closely related Semitic languages, it is commonly accepted that Allah (root, ilÄh) and the Biblical Elohim are cognate derivations of same origin, as is Eloah, a Hebrew word which is used (e.g. in the Book of Job) to mean '(the) God' and also 'god or gods' as is the case of Elohim.