hallelujah
Part of speech: intj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Etymology tree
Biblical Hebrew הַלְּלוּ (halləlū)
Biblical Hebrew יָהּ (yɔh)
Biblical Hebrew הַלְּלוּיָהּ (halləlūyɔh)lbor.
English hallelujah
Learned borrowing from Biblical Hebrew הַלְּלוּיָהּ (halləlūyɔh), from הַלְּלוּ (halləlū, “praise!”) + יָהּ (yɔh, “Lord, Jah”).
Inflected forms:
form: halleluia
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: halleluiah
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: halleluja
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: alleluia
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: aleluia
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: hallelujahs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: halleluia
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: halleluiah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: halleluja
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: alleluia
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: aleluia
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: hallelujahs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hallelujahing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hallelujahed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hallelujahed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: halleluia
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: halleluiah
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: halleluja
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: alleluia
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: aleluia
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An exclamation used in songs of praise or thanksgiving to God.
pos: intj
examples: AND after theſe things I heard a great voyce of much people in heauen, ſaying, Alleluia: ſaluation, and glorie, and honour, and power vnto the Lord our God:
gloss: A general expression of gratitude or adoration.
pos: intj
tags: broadly
examples: Hallelujah! It’s finally the weekend!
Hallelujah, it's nice to know you / It's so peculiar how you've come and changed my mind
gloss: A shout of “Hallelujah”.
pos: noun
examples: So ſung they, and the Empyrean rung, / With Halleluiahs: Thus was Sabbath kept.
gloss: A song of praise to God; a musical composition based on the word "Hallelujah".
pos: noun
gloss: General praise.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
examples: Who so stolid and selfish, that would not give his voice to swell the hallelujahs of a nation’s jubilee, when the chains of servitude had been torn from his limbs?
gloss: To cry "hallelujah" in praise.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: My aunt Gastonia […] she'd seen the Lord more times than they could ever count, and hallelujahed and hallelujahed, said, “While's all this the Gospel word and true, […]
Derived words: hallelujah lass
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: الْحَمْدُ لِلّٰهِ
roman: al-ḥamdu lillāhi
lang: Belarusian
word: сла́ва бо́гу
roman: sláva bóhu
lang: Catalan
word: al·leluia
lang: Danish
word: gudskelov
lang: Esperanto
word: haleluja
lang: Finnish
word: halleluja
lang: German
word: Gott sei Dank
lang: Greek
word: αλληλούια
roman: alliloúia
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἀλληλούϊα
roman: allēloúïa
lang: Italian
word: alleluia
lang: Italian
word: grazie a Dio
lang: Malagasy
word: aleloia
lang: Portuguese
word: aleluia
lang: Russian
word: сла́ва бо́гу
roman: sláva bógu
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: алелуја
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: aleluja
lang: Spanish
word: aleluya
lang: Swahili
word: alleluia
lang: Turkish
word: Allah'a çok şükür
lang: Turkish
word: Tanrı yarasın
lang: Ukrainian
word: сла́ва бо́гу
roman: sláva bóhu