God

See also: Appendix:Variations of "god"

English

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The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo Buonarotti, showing the Christian God

Alternative forms

• od (archaic, regional, euphemistic)
• god (as proper noun, often derogatory or in philosophy)

Etymology

From Middle English God. See god.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: gŏd, IPA^(key): /ɡɒd/, /ɡɔːd/

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• (AAVE) IPA^(key): /ɡɑ(d)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɡɑd/

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• Rhymes: -ɒd
• Homophone: gaud (in accents with the cot-caught merger)

Proper noun

God (usually uncountable, plural Gods)

2. The single deity of various monotheistic religions, especially the deity of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

   Dawn believes in God, but Willow believes in multiple gods and goddesses.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 John 4:8:

     Hee that loueth not, knoweth not God: for God is loue

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 John 4:16:

     God is loue, and hee that dwelleth in loue, dwelleth in God, and God in him.

   • 1741, [Samuel Richardson], Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded. […], 3rd edition, volume II, London: […] C[harles] Rivington, […]; and J. Osborn, […], →OCLC, page 388:

     ...God, the All-gracious, the All-good, the All-bountiful, the All-mighty, the All-merciful God...

   • 1911, Katharine Harris Bradley as Michael Field, Accuser, page 158:

     The Muéddin: God is great, there is no God but God.

   • 1971 [1963 November 22], Lyndon Johnson, “The Beginning”, in The Vantage Point‎^[1], Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 17:

     This is a sad time for all people. We have suffered a loss that cannot be weighed. For me, it is a deep personal tragedy. I know that the world shares the sorrow that Mrs. Kennedy and her family bear. I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help — and God's.

   • Paragraph 73, R v Brenton Harrison Tarrant (Sentencing remarks) ([2020] NZHC 2192)

     He (n.b.: a Muslim) has told me that he will not allow one person’s actions to stop him from praying to his God.

   • 2011, Steve Urick, Practical Christian Living, →ISBN, page 214:

     All this will culminate in a final showdown in Israel between the true Lord (Jehovah) God of Israel and the false god (Allah) of Mecca (the center of pagan idolatry in Arabia, at the Kaaba) […]

   1. (Trinitarian Christianity) God the Father as distinguished from Jesus Christ, God the Son.
      • 1899, The Sunday School Journal, page 378:

        God sent Jesus to earth to be the King of the Jews; that is, the one to tell them what they should do. […] I will tell you why God let Jesus die upon the cross.

3. The single male deity of various bitheistic or duotheistic religions.
   • 2001, Timothy Freke, Peter Gandy, Jesus and the Lost Goddess, page 133:

     The ancients represented this fundamental duality mythologically as God and Goddess. When Mystery looks at itself, God looks at Goddess.

   • 2005, Nikki Bado-Fralick, Coming to the Edge of the Circle, page 45:

     This reduces the successful invocation of God to a function of the presence of male genitalia. Put another way, women have the wrong equipment to invoke God.
     Goddess and God flow throughout all of nature, through each and every man and woman, becoming fully present in the world.

   • 2006, Ronald L. Clark, The Grace of Being, page 22:

     God and Goddess watched as the finite universe continued to develop into a stable platform to sustain finite life and were pleased.

4. (philosophy) The transcendent principle, for example the ultimate cause or prime mover, often not considered as a person.
   • 1895, “The Tâo-Tĭh-King, or Thoughts on the Nature and Manifestations of God”, in G. G. Alexander, transl., Lâo-Tsze the Great Thinker […], page 55:

     God (the great everlasting infinite First Cause from whom all things in heaven and earth proceed) [translating Chinese 道] can neither be defined nor named.

   • 2000, Catriona Hanley, Being and God in Aristotle and Heidegger, →ISBN, page 195:

     For Aristotle, God as the ultimate ground is the being that is responsible for the workings of the rational cosmos, but not for itself.

   • 2017, Aryeh Finkelberg, Heraclitus and Thales’ Conceptual Scheme: A Historical Study, →ISBN, page 156:

     Now, if night, winter, hunger, and war, which describe the God’s appearance as the multiple world, are his ‘scents’ and ‘names’, the same must be true of the world’s several constituents: all created things are just transient ‘scents’, and their names misnomers, of the fiery God.

Usage notes

The word "God" is capitalized in reference to the Abrahamic deity of the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic faiths almost without exception, even when preceded by various qualifiers. The term is frequently, but not always, capitalized in vaguer deistic references to a single deity as well.

Monotheistic Gods are traditionally referenced in English with masculine pronouns and (when depicted) anthropomorphized in the form of adult men, but also traditionally held by theologians to be beyond human sex or gender. Like other languages employing Latin script, English pronouns referring to a God traditionally begin with a capital letter as a sign of respect: He, Him, His, and Himself in the third person and Thee, Thy, Thine, Thyself or You, Your, and Yourself in direct address. However, this use is not universal and the King James Version of the Bible, as well as other modern translations, employ standard uncapitalized pronouns. See also: LORD.

Some Jews consider the English word "God" to fall under the Hebrew khumra concerning the avoidance of blasphemy, preferring to use the form G-d or alternatives such as Hashem, Lord, etc.

According to Trinitarian branches of Christianity (e.g. Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, most Protestant denominations), God and the Holy Trinity are one and the same, with three distinct persons: the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are all God, but none of the three are one or both of the other persons.

Quotations

• For more quotations using this term, see Citations:God.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:god

Derived terms

• act of God
• all the hours God sends
• as God intended
• Book of God
• dear God
• every hour God sends
• Friend of God
• God be with the days
• God be with you
• God committee
• goddamn
• goddamned
• Goddess
• God-fearing
• godforsaken
• God hypothesis
• Godild
• God love someone
• God of the gaps
• God particle
• God preserve us
• God rest his soul
• God's acre
• God's algorithm
• God's bones
• God's country
• Godself
• God's gift to men
• God's gift to women
• God's green earth
• God's honest truth
• God's in his Heaven
• God's mercy
• God's number
• God squad
• God's word
• God the Father
• God the Holy Spirit
• God the Son
• God willing
• good God
• in God we trust
• Mother of God
• oh my God, OMG
• people of God
• put the fear of God into
• rub the fear of God into
• thank God
• thanks be to God
• the Master of God and human
• think one is God's own cousin

 

Descendants

• → Pohnpeian: Koht

Translations

single deity of monotheism — see also god,‎ deity

• Afrikaans: God
• Aghwan: 𐔱𐔼𐕀𐔰𐕃𐕒𐕡𐕘 (bixaʒ́uġ)
• Ainu: カムイ (kamuy)
• Albanian: perëndi (sq), hyjni (sq), zot (sq), All-llah/u

  Old Albanian: hyll

• Amharic: እግዜር m (ʾəgzer), እግዚአብሔር m (ʾəgziʾäbḥer)
• Apache:

  Western Apache: yóósn

• Arabic: الله (ar) m (allāh), إِلَٰه (ar) (ʔilāh), الرَّبّ m (ar-rabb)

  Egyptian Arabic: ربنا m (rabbena), الله m (ʔallāh)

  Moroccan Arabic: ربي m (rabbi), الله (ʔallāh)

• Aragonese: Dios
• Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac: ܐܠܗܐ m (ʾălāhā), ܐܝܠ m (ʾêl)

  Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: אֲלָהָא m (ʾălāhā), אֵל m (ʾēl)

• Armenian: Աստված (Astvac)
• Aromanian: dumnidzã
• Assamese: ভগৱান (bhogowan)
• Asturian: Dios (ast) m
• Aymara: Tatitu
• Azerbaijani: Allah (az), Rabb, Tanrı, Xuda
• Bafia: Bɛ̀ll
• Baluchi: ہدا (huda), خدا (xuda), الله (Allah)
• Bashkir: Алла (Alla), Аллаһ (Allah)
• Basque: Jainko
• Belarusian: бог m (boh), Бог m (Boh)
• Bengali: আল্লাহ (bn) (allah), খোদা (bn) (khōda), ঈশ্বর (bn) (iśśor)
• Bikol Central: Dyos (bcl), Kagurangnan
• Breton: Doue (br)
• Bulgarian: бог (bg) m (bog)
• Burmese: ^{(please verify)} ဘုရားသခင် (bhu.ra:sa.hkang)
• Caló: Debel m
• Catalan: Déu (ca) m
• Chamicuro: yosi
• Chechen: Дела (Dela)
• Cherokee: ᎤᏁᏆ (unequa), ᎠᏓᏅᏙ (adanvdo), ᎤᏁᎳᏅᎯ (unelanvhi), ᎡᏙᏓ (edoda)
• Cheyenne: ma'heo'o
• Chichewa: Mulungu
• Chickasaw: Chihoowa
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 上帝 (soeng⁶ dai³), 天主 (tin¹ zyu²) (in Catholicism), 真主 (zan¹ zyu²) (in Islam)

  Dungan: Хўда (Hwda), Анлахў (Anlahw) (Islam), Анла (Anla) (Islam)

  Eastern Min: 上帝 (Sióng-dá̤)

  Hokkien: 上帝 (zh-min-nan) (Siōng-tè), 天主 (Thian-chú) (in Catholicism), 真主 (Tsin-chú) (in Islam)

  Mandarin: 上帝 (zh) (Shàngdì), 天主 (zh) (Tiānzhǔ) (in Catholicism), 真主 (zh) (Zhēnzhǔ) (in Islam)

• Chuvash: Турӑ (Tură)
• Coptic: ⲡⲛⲟⲩⲧⲉ (pnoute) (Sahidic), ⲫⲛⲟⲩϯ (phnouti) (Bohairic), ⲫϯ (phti)
• Cornish: Duw
• Corsican: Diu
• Czech: Bůh (cs) m
• Dalmatian: Di
• Danish: Gud (da) c
• Deori: Kundi, Kundimama
• Dusner: Mansren, Aisnan
• Dutch: God (nl) m
• Eastern Arrernte: ngkarte
• Erzya: Инешкипаз (Ińeškipaz)
• Esperanto: Dio (eo)
• Estonian: jumal (et)
• Ewe: Mawu
• Farefare: yɩnɛ, wẽnnɛ
• Faroese: Gud m, Guð m
• Finnish: Jumala (fi), jumala (fi)
• French: Dieu (fr) m

  Middle French: Dieu m

  Old French: Deus m

• Friulian: Diu m, Idiu m, Signôr m
• Fula: Alla
• Galician: Deus (gl) m
• Georgian: ღმერთი (ka) (ɣmerti)
• German: Gott (de) m
• Gothic: 𐌲𐌿𐌸 (guþ)
• Greek: Θεός (el) m (Theós)

  Ancient: Θεός m (Theós)

• Greenlandic: Guuti
• Guaraní: Ñandejára (gn), Tupã (gn)
• Haitian Creole: Bondye
• Hakka: Songti
• Hausa: Allàh (ha)
• Hawaiian: Akua
• Hebrew: אלוהים / אֱלֹהִים (he) (elohím)
• Hindi: ईश्वर (hi) m (īśvar), परमेश्वर (hi) m (parmeśvar), भगवान (hi) m (bhagvān), परमात्मा (hi) m (parmātmā), देवता (hi) m (devtā), दैवता m (daivtā), ख़ुदा (hi) m (xudā), खुदा (hi) m (khudā), अल्लाह (hi) m (allāh), इलाही (hi) m (ilāhī), रब (hi) m (rab), अकाल (hi) m (akāl), वाहेगुरु m (vāheguru), प्रभु (hi) m (prabhu), देव (hi) m (dev), राम (hi) m (rām), ऊँकार m (ū̃kār), साहिब (hi) m (sāhib), साहब (hi) m (sāhab)
• Hittite: [script needed] (siu)
• Hungarian: Isten (hu)
• Hunsrik: Kot
• Icelandic: Guð (is) m
• Igbo: Chineke
• Ilocano: Dios
• Inari Sami: Immeel
• Indonesian: Allah (id), Tuhan (id)
• Ingrian: Jumala
• Interlingua: Deo
• Irish: Dia (ga) m
• Istriot: Deîo m
• Italian: Dio (it) m
• Japanese: 神 (ja) (かみ, kami), 神様 (ja) (かみさま, kamisama), デウス
• Javanese: Bethara, Allah, Tuhan (jv)
• Judeo-Tat: худо (xudo)
• Kabardian: Тхьэ (Tḥɛ)
• Kabyle: Ṛebbi, Sidi Ṛebbi, Yuc
• Kaingang: Topẽ
• Kamba: Ngai
• Kannada: ದೇವರು (kn) (dēvaru)
• Karelian: Jumala
• Kazakh: Құдай (kk) (Qūdai), Алла (Alla), Тәңір (Täñır)
• Khalaj: Allâh
• Khmer: ព្រះ (km) (prĕəh)
• Kikuyu: Ngai class 1, Mũrungu
• Korean: 신(神) (ko) (sin), 하느님 (ko) (haneunim)
• Koyraboro Senni: allaahu, irkoy
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: اللھ (allh), خودا (ckb) (xuda), خوا (xwa)

  Northern Kurdish: Xwedê (ku), Xuda (ku), Elah (ku)

• Kyrgyz: Худай (Huday), Тенгири (Tengiri), Алла (Alla), Аллах (Allah)
• Ladino:

  Latin: El Dyo m

• Lakota: Wakȟáŋ Tȟáŋka
• Lao: ພະເຈົ້າ (pha chao)
• Latgalian: Dīvs m
• Latin: Deus (la) m
• Latvian: Dievs (lv) m
• Ligurian: Dîo m
• Lingala: Nzámbe
• Lishana Deni: אֶלְהׇא (ʾelha), אילאהא (ʾilāha)
• Lithuanian: Dievas (lt) m
• Low German: Goäd m
• Luhya: wele
• Luo: Nyasae
• Macedonian: Бог (mk) m (Bog)
• Malagasy: Andriamanitra (mg)
• Malay: Tuhan (ms) m, Allah (ms) m
• Maltese: Alla (mt)
• Manchu: ᡝᠨᡩᡠᡵᡳ (enduri), ᠠᠮᠠ (ama)
• Manx: Jee
• Maori: Atua
• Maranao: Tohan
• Mbyá Guaraní: Nhanderuete
• Middle Dutch: God
• Mingrelian: ღორონთი (ɣoronti)
• Mòcheno: Gott m
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: бурхан (mn) (burxan)

  Mongolian: ᠪᠤᠷᠬᠠᠨ (burqan)

• Moore: wẽnde, Wẽnnaam
• Nandi: Asis
• Nauruan: Gott
• Navajo: Diyin Ayóó Átʼéii, Diyin God
• Nepali: भगवान् (bhagavān), देवता (devatā), ईश्वर (ne) (īśwar), परमप्रभु (paramprabhu), परमेश्वर (parmeśwar), परमात्मा (parmātmā)
• Newar: परमप्रभु (paramaprabhu)
• Ngazidja Comorian: Mngu
• Northern Sami: Ipmil, avgud
• Northern Sotho: Modimo
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Gud m, Herre (no) m

• Occitan: Dieu (oc) m
• Odia: ସଦାପ୍ରଭୁ (or) (sôdaprôbhu)
• Ojibwe: gichi-manidoo
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: богъ m (bogŭ), Богъ m (Bogŭ)

• Old English: God m
• Old Norse: goð m, guð m
• Old Occitan: Deu
• Old Prussian: Dēiws m, dēiws m
• Old Saxon: God
• Old Tupi: Tupã
• Oromo: Waaqa (om), Waaqayyo
• Ossetian: Хуыцау (X°ycaw), дзуар (ʒwar)
• Ottawa: gchi-mnidoo
• Pashto: خدای (ps) m (xwdāy), الله (ps) (Allah)
• Persian: خدا (fa) (xodâ), الله (fa) (allâh)
• Plautdietsch: Gott (nds) m
• Polish: Bóg (pl) m
• Portuguese: Deus (pt) m
• Potawatomi: kche-mnedo
• Quechua: Dyus
• Romani: Devel m

  Balkan Romani: Del m (Bugurdži), devel m (Kosovo Arli)

  Baltic Romani: dêêl m (Latvian), deevel m (Latvian), devel m (Latvian)

  Carpathian Romani: Del m (Burgenland, East Slovak, Gurvari, Hungarian Vend, Romungro)

  Vlax Romani: del m (Banatiski Gurbet), Del m (Gurbet, Kalderaš), Devlesko m (Gurbet), Dîl m (Gurbet), Dol m (Gurbet)

• Romanian: Dumnezeu (ro) m
• Romansch: Dieu m
• Russian: Бог (ru) m (Box), Госпо́дь (ru) m (Gospódʹ), Алла́х (ru) m (Alláx) (Islam)
• Rwanda-Rundi: Imana
• Saanich: XA¸EL¸S, ŦI¸ŦEȽ SI¸ÁM¸
• Samogitian: (modern) Dievs m, (archaic) Dėivs m
• Sango: Nzapa
• Scots: God
• Scottish Gaelic: Dia (gd) m
• Semai: Nyenang
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Бо̑г m, Го̏спод m, Аллах m, Алах m (Islam)

  Roman: Bȏg (sh) m, Gȍspod (sh) m, Allah m, Alah m (Islam)

• Shona: Mwari
• Sicilian: Diu
• Sindhi: خدا (sd), رب
• Sinhalese: දෙවියන්වහන්සේ (dewiyanwahansē)
• Slovak: Boh (sk) m
• Slovene: Bóg (sl) m
• Somali: Eebe, Ilaah, Allaah, Waaq
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: Bog m

  Upper Sorbian: Bóh m

• Sotho: Modimo, Ramasedi, Raseokamelabatho
• Spanish: Dios (es) m
• Swahili: Mungu, Allah (sw) (in Islam)
• Swedish: Gud (sv) c, gudaväsen c
• Tagalog: Diyos (tl), Panginoon, Maykapal (tl), Bathala
• Tajik: Худо (Xudo), Оллоҳ (tg) (Olloh)
• Tamil: ஆண்டவன் (ta) (āṇṭavaṉ)
• Tatar: Ходай (Xoday), Тәңре (Täñre), Алла (tt) (Alla), Аллах (Allax)
• Telugu: గాడ్ (gāḍ), దేవుడు (te) (dēvuḍu)
• Thai: พระเจ้า (th) (prá-jâao)
• Tibetan: ལྷ (lha), དབང་ཕྱུག (dbang phyug), དཀོན་མཆོག (dkon mchog)
• Tigrinya: እግዚኣብሄር (ʾəgziʾabher)
• Turkish: Allah (tr), Tanrı (tr), Yaradan (tr), Huda (tr), Hak (tr), Çalap (tr)
• Turkmen: Allah, Taňry, Alla (tk), Hudaý
• Tuvan: Бурган (Burgan)
• Udi: бихаджугъ (biχaǯuɣ), бухаджогъ (buχaǯoɣ)
• Ukrainian: бог (uk) m (boh), Бог (uk) m (Boh)
• Urdu: اللہ (ur) (allāh), خدا (ur) m (xudā), پروردگار m (parvardigār), اوپر والا m (ūpar vālā), رب m (rabb), مولا m (maulā), خداوند m (xudāvand)
• Uyghur: تەڭرى (tengri), خۇدا (ug) (xuda), ئاللاھ (ug) (allah)
• Uzbek: Alloh, Xudo, Таңри

  Cyrillic: Аллоҳ (Alloh)

• Venetian: Dio
• Veps: Jumal
• Vietnamese: Chúa (vi), Thiên Chúa (vi), Trời, Thượng Đế, đấng Tạo Hóa
• Võro: Jummal
• Walloon: Bon Diu (wa)
• Welsh: Duw (cy)
• West Frisian: God (fy) c
• Western Panjabi: خدا (pnb)
• White Hmong: Tswv Ntuj (in Catholicism), Vaj Tswv (in Protestantism)
• Wolof: Yàlla (wo)
• Xhosa: uThixo
• Yakut: Таҥара (Tañara), Аллаах (Allaaq)
• Yaqui: Lios
• Yiddish: גאָט m (got), השם m (hashem), כּבֿיכול (kev(i)yokhl) (euphemism)
• Yoruba: Ọlọ́run
• Yup'ik: Agayun, Ellam Yua
• Zazaki: Homa (diq), Car (diq), Allah (diq)
• Zulu: Ujehova, uNkulunkulu
• ǃXóõ: bīhi sà bòlo

single male deity of duotheism

• Afrikaans: God
• Albanian: Perëndia m
• Arabic: اِلٰه m (ilāh)
• Armenian: աստված (hy) (astvac)
• Bashkir: Алла (Alla), Аллаһ (Allah)
• Bengali: ঈশ্বর (bn) (iśśor)
• Catalan: Déu (ca) m
• Chechen: Дела (Dela)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 神 (zh) (Shén), 男神 (Nánshén)

• Czech: Bůh (cs) m
• Dutch: God (nl) m
• Esperanto: Dio (eo)
• Estonian: jumal (et)
• Finnish: jumala (fi)
• French: Dieu (fr) m
• Georgian: ღმერთი (ka) (ɣmerti), ღვთაება (ɣvtaeba)
• German: Gott (de) m
• Greek: Θεός (el) m (Theós)
• Hindi: ईश्वर (hi) m (īśvar), परमेश्वर (hi) m (parmeśvar), भगवान (hi) m (bhagvān), परमात्मा (hi) m (parmātmā), देवता (hi) m (devtā), दैवता m (daivtā), ख़ुदा (hi) m (xudā), खुदा (hi) m (khudā), अल्लाह (hi) m (allāh), इलाही (hi) m (ilāhī), रब (hi) m (rab), अकाल (hi) m (akāl), वाहेगुरु m (vāheguru), प्रभु (hi) m (prabhu), देव (hi) m (dev), राम (hi) m (rām), ऊँकार m (ū̃kār), करतार (hi) m (kartār), सिरजनहार (hi) m (sirjanhār), साहिब (hi) m (sāhib), साहब (hi) m (sāhab)
• Ilocano: Dios
• Italian: Dio (it) m
• Japanese: 神 (ja) (かみ, kami), 神様 (ja) (かみさま, kamisama)
• Kazakh: Жаратқан Ие (Jaratqan İe)
• Khmer: ព្រះ (km) (prĕəh)
• Lao: ພະເຈົ້າ (pha chao)
• Lithuanian: Dievas (lt) m
• Macedonian: бог m (bog)
• Maltese: Alla (mt) m
• Newar: परमप्रभु (paramaprabhu)
• Occitan: Dieu (oc) m
• Portuguese: Deus (pt) m
• Romanian: Dumnezeu (ro) m
• Russian: бог (ru) m (box)
• Scottish Gaelic: Dia (gd) m
• Spanish: Dios (es) m
• Swedish: Gud (sv) m
• Tagalog: Diyos (tl), Panginoon, Maykapal (tl)
• Telugu: దేవుడు (te) (dēvuḍu)
• Thai: พระเจ้า (th) (prá-jâao)
• Tibetan: དབང་ཕྱུག (dbang phyug)
• Turkish: tanrı (tr), ilah (tr), tengri (tr)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

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• Basque: ^{(please verify)} Jaungoiko / ^{(please verify)} Jaungoikoa, ^{(please verify)} Jainko / ^{(please verify)} Jainkoa
• Bulgarian: ^{(please verify)} бог (bg) m (bog)
• Cebuano: ^{(please verify)} Diyos
• French: ^{(please verify)} Dieu (fr) m
• Gilbertese: ^{(please verify)} atua
• Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} יהוה (he) (YHWH /⁠Adonái⁠/), ^{(please verify)} השם (he) (ha-Shem) (reverent form, lit. "the Name"), ^{(please verify)} אלוהים (he) (ĕlōhîm) (lit. "Gods" plural, refers to the one God), ^{(please verify)} אל (he) (El) or ^{(please verify)} האל (ha-El) (God), ^{(please verify)} 'ה or ^{(please verify)} יי or ^{(please verify)} 'ד (Adonai) (abbr. forms), ^{(please verify)} אדֹני (he) (phonetic "Adonai"), ^{(please verify)} יה (he) ("Yah," as in "Halleluyah"), ^{(please verify)} ריבונו של עולם (Ribono shel Olam) (Master of the Universe), ^{(please verify)} שכינה (he) (Sh'chinah) (Divine Presence, often used to refer to a feminine interpretation of God)
• Icelandic: ^{(please verify)} Guð (is)
• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} Tuhan (id)
• Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} Deo
• Latin: ^{(please verify)} Deus (la) m
• Lithuanian: ^{(please verify)} Dievas (lt) m
• Luganda: ^{(please verify)} Katonda
• Nauruan: ^{(please verify)} Gott
• Occitan: ^{(please verify)} Deu m
• Old Prussian: ^{(please verify)} Dēiws m, ^{(please verify)} dēiws m
• Persian: ^{(please verify)} خُداوَند (fa) (xodâvand)
• Punjabi: ^{(please verify)} ਰੱਬ (pa) (rabba), ^{(please verify)} ਵਾਹਿਗੁਰੂ (pa) (vāhigurū), ^{(please verify)} ਪਰਮੇਸ਼ੁਰ (parmeśur)
• Sardinian: ^{(please verify)} Deus m
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} Dios (es) m
• Swahili: ^{(please verify)} Allah (sw) (noun 1)
• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} Gud (sv) m
• Tausug: ^{(please verify)} Tuhan
• Thai: ^{(please verify)} พระเจ้า (th) (phrā jào), ^{(please verify)} เทพเจ้า (th) (thèhp jào)
• Welsh: ^{(please verify)} Duw (cy) m

Noun

God (plural Gods)

1. A being such as a monotheistic God: a single divine creator and ruler of the universe.
   • 1563, Barnabe Googe, Eglogs, Epytaphes, and Sonettes, sig. Cviiiv:

     A God there is, that guyds the Globe, and framde the fyckle Spheare.

   • 1911, Katharine Harris Bradley as Michael Field, Accuser, p. 158:

     The Muéddin: God is great, there is no God but God.

   • 1960 April 25, advertisement in Life, p. 125:

     Perhaps this... must involve a relationship with a God of truth—and of love, of mercy, of justice.

   • 2009, Nick Cave, The Death of Bunny Munro, page 68:

     Whoever said that there isn't a God is full of shit!

Translations

an omnipotent being

• Afrikaans: God
• Arabic: إِلٰه (ar) (ʔilāh)
• Aramaic:

  Hebrew: אלהא m (’Alāhā’)

  Syriac: ܐܠܗܐ m (’Alāhā’)

• Armenian: աստված (hy) (astvac)
• Asturian: Dios (ast) m
• Bulgarian: Бог (bg) m (Bog)
• Catalan: Déu (ca) m
• Chickasaw: Chihoowa
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 天主 (zh) (tiānzhu), 上帝 (zh) (shàngdì)

• Coptic: ⲑⲉⲟⲩ m (theou)
• Czech: bůh (cs) m
• Danish: Gud (da)
• Dutch: god (nl), God (nl) m
• Esperanto: Dio (eo)
• Finnish: jumala (fi), Jumala (fi)
• French: Dieu (fr) m
• Galician: Deus (gl) m
• Ge'ez: እግዚአብሔር (ʾƎgziʾäbəḥer)
• Georgian: ღმერთი (ka) (ɣmerti)
• German: Gott (de) m
• Greek: Θεός (el) m (Theós)
• Hindi: ईश्वर (hi) m (īśvar), परमेश्वर (hi) m (parmeśvar), भगवान (hi) m (bhagvān), परमात्मा (hi) m (parmātmā), देवता (hi) m (devtā), दैवता m (daivtā), ख़ुदा (hi) m (xudā), खुदा (hi) m (khudā), अल्लाह (hi) m (allāh), इलाही (hi) m (ilāhī), रब (hi) m (rab), अकाल (hi) m (akāl), वाहेगुरु m (vāheguru), राम (hi) m (rām), ऊँकार m (ū̃kār), करतार (hi) m (kartār), सिरजनहार (hi) m (sirjanhār), साहिब (hi) m (sāhib), साहब (hi) m (sāhab)
• Indonesian: Allah (id), Tuhan (id)
• Interlingua: Deo
• Italian: Dio (it) m
• Jarai: Ama Adai, Ơi Adai
• Kikuyu: Ngai
• Korean: 신(神) (ko) (sin)
• Lao: ພະເຈົ້າ (pha chao)
• Latin: Deus (la) m
• Lithuanian: Dievas (lt) m
• Luhya: Were
• Luo: Nyasaye
• Macedonian: бог m (bog)
• Maguindanao: Allah, Alatala
• Malay: Allah (ms), Tuhan (ms)
• Middle Persian: [script needed] (yẕdt' /⁠yazd⁠/)
• Old Prussian: Dēiws m, dēiws m
• Persian: خدا (fa) (xodâ)
• Plautdietsch: Gott (nds) m
• Polish: Bóg (pl) m
• Portuguese: Deus (pt) m
• Romanian: Dumnezeu (ro) m, dumnezeu (ro) m
• Russian: бог (ru) m (box)
• Scots: god
• Scottish Gaelic: Dia (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian: božanstvo (sh) n
• Swahili: Mungu
• Swedish: Gud (sv) m
• Tagalog: Diyos (tl), Bathala
• Tundra Nenets: нумʼ (num)
• Turkish: Allah (tr), Tanrı (tr)
• Urdu: خدا (ur) (xudā)
• Zazaki: Homa (diq) c, Alla c

Interjection

God

1. Short for oh God: expressing annoyance or frustration.

   God, is this because of the "I don't love you anymore" T-shirt I bought? It was a joke!

   • 2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel (Priority: Earth):

     Admiral Anderson: God... feels like years since I just sat down.

See also

• god, deity
• divine
• Tetragrammaton
• theism, atheism, monotheism, polytheism

References

• “god, n. and int.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Anagrams

• DOG, Dog, dog

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch God.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /χɔt/

• Audio

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Proper noun

God

1. God

Dutch

Etymology

See god.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɣɔt/

• audio (Belgium)

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• audio (Netherlands)

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• Hyphenation: God
• Rhymes: -ɔt

Proper noun

God m

1. God

   God, neem me mee naar een plek hier ver vandaan. -- Kempi & Willy - Hier Ver Vandaan 2009 [2]

   Oh, mijn God

   Oh my god

   • 1934, Martinus Nijhoff, “De moeder de vrouw”, in Nieuwe gedichten [New poems]‎^[3]; reprinted in W.J. van den Akker en G.J. Dorleijn, editors, Verzamelde gedichten [Collected poems], Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Bert Bakker, 2001, →ISBN, page 232:

     Zij was alleen aan dek, zij stond bij 't roer, / en wat zij zong hoorde ik dat psalmen waren. / O, dacht ik, o, dat daar mijn moeder voer. / Prijs God, zong zij, Zijn hand zal u bewaren.

     She was alone on deck, she was at the helm, / and what she sang, I heard, were psalms. / Oh, I thought, oh, were it that my mother sailed there. / Praise God, she sang, His hand will preserve you.

Derived terms

(See also the derived terms at god.)

• godvergeten
• godverlaten
• in godsnaam
• van God los

 

Descendants

• Skepi Creole Dutch: Godt

See also

• god

Middle English

Noun

God

1. Alternative form of god

Proper noun

God

1. Alternative form of god

Old English

Etymology

See god.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡod/

Proper noun

God m

1. God

   Ġif God nǣre, þonne sċolde man hine āþenċan.

   If God didn't exist, we would have to invent him.

   Hwæt wāt iċ be Gode and be līfes andġiete? Iċ wāt þæt þēos weorold is.

   What do I know about God and the meaning of life? I know that this world exists.

Declension

Declension of God (strong a-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	God	—
accusative	God	—
genitive	Godes	—
dative	Gode	—

Derived terms

• Gode þanc
• God helpe sumes mannes
• God wāt
• mid Godes ġiefe

Descendants

• Middle English: God
  • English: God

Saterland Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian god, from Proto-West Germanic *god. Cognates include West Frisian god and German Gott.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɣɔd/
• Hyphenation: God
• Rhymes: -ɔd

Proper noun

God m

1. God

Noun

God m (plural Gode)

1. god

References

• Piet Kramer (1961) “God”, in Seelter Woudebouk (Paat Seeltersk-Düütsk)‎^[4], Leeuwarden
• Marron C. Fort (2015) “God”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN

Scots

Etymology

From Old English god.

Proper noun

God

1. God

Tok Pisin

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Etymology

From English God.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡod/

Proper noun

God

1. God (Abrahamic monotheistic deity)
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 1:2:

     Tudak i karamapim bikpela wara na spirit bilong God i go i kam antap long en.

     →New International Version translation

Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from English God.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡod/

Proper noun

God

1. God

West Frisian

Etymology

See god.

Proper noun

God

1. God

Yola

Proper noun

God

1. Alternative form of gud
   • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 14, page 90:

     Zo bless all oore frends, an God zpeed ee plowe.

     So bless all our friends, and God speed the plough.

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 90