How do you say god in Arabic? not the God, I mean a little god like Zeus or something like that?

Question

I know in Arabic Allah means "The God" or "The Diety" but if someone was referring to another pagan god or something like that, whats the word they would use? for example "Zeus was a greek god" or "Ahura Mazda was a persian god" ...get my drift? how do you say "god" in arabic?

Answer 1

Contrary to popular opinion, "Allah" is not the name of deity of Islam. The word "Allah" is simply the Arabic word meaning "God/god", and is used by Christians and Arab Jews (Yes, there are Arab Jews) as well Muslims.    When Arabs are speaking of a specific deity, such as Zeus, they will simply use the name to denote him. For example, if an Arab was talking about the Sumerian-Babylonian goddess Ishtar, he would simply say "Ashtar (Ashtar being the Arab cognate of "Ishtar")". If he were to further explain, he would say "Ashtar, allahit el Sumaryeen"- "Ishtar, goddess of the Sumerians".

In short, the Arabic way of saying either God or god is highly similar to the English way in that both use the same word to denote either a specific, monotheistic deity or any number of polytheistic deities.

Answer 2

zeus is "that greek allah"

Answer 3

God is Allah

god is ilah in phonetics( long i ,l,ae,h)

Answer 4

Yes, you can indeed say "god" in Arabic. Other answers are not correct if they tell you otherwise.

We have to make a very important distinction here! The God (of monotheistic religions such as Christianity, Judaism and Islam) is known as "Allah" or ألله

Other 'gods' or 'deities' are known as 'ilah' (إله) - singular, and 'Aaliha' (آلهة) - plural.