God

CRITICAL: Xwedê is a native word from the same Old Iranian root as Persian’s Khoda and Pashto’s Khudai, reflecting Kurdish’s own status as a Northwestern Iranian language - a genuine independent linguistic asset, not exclusively Arabic/Quranic. Allah is also used, especially in more formal religious registers, but Xwedê is preferred for everyday Kurdish Christian usage. The risk remains in content: strict tawhid theology must be distinguished from the Trinitarian conception denoted by the same word.