Glossary Term
Risk: Critical- Approved rendering
- Ilaah
- Transliteration
- ee-LAHH
- Rejected alternatives
- Eebe (a warmly familiar, invocation-style Somali term, e.g. 'Eebow,' but colloquial rather than the settled Bible-translation register), Alle (the direct Arabic loan)
God
Ilaah is the pre-Islamic Cushitic-root Somali word for God, the settled term used across Somali Bible translation. Eebe is extremely common in everyday invocational speech but functions more as a devotional address; Alle is understood but this Language Package follows established Somali Bible precedent in using Ilaah for doctrinal consistency.