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shams
6 Apr 2015

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What is the difference between ูŠุง ุงู„ู‡ูŠ and ูŠุง ุงู„ู„ู‡ ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.

I know it means "Oh God" and "Oh my God". The question is: How can I know when the word received that change or not? I will never know that ilahi cames from the word allah. A bit complex subject but I think it will help me so much if you guys tell me the trick to identify the difference from the original word - changed word. Please if possible use different words, even if exists with allah its fine too lol. Shukran jaziiiiilaaaaan!
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nabas
7 Apr 2015

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There's no difference
ุงู„ู„ู‡
Is the name of the God, on the other hand ุงู„ู‡ูŠ just means "my god" like you said, you can say both or you can say one it doesn't change anything, there's another word ูŠุง ุฑุจูŠ ,that we use and it also means "my god".
If you want to know the source of the word ุงู„ู‡ูŠ it's ุฅู„ู‡ I hope I helped :)

yagmali
11 Apr 2015

  • Arabic

There's no difference
ูŠุง ุงู„ู„ู‡ only when you ask your god for something,
ex, ูŠุง ุงู„ู„ู‡ ุงุบูุฑ ู„ูŠ ูˆุงุฑุญู… ุถุนููŠ. Allah pleas for give me and my weakness. but ูŠุง ุงู„ู‡ูŠ which is oh my god means that something happened to you and you get surprised.
Ex. When you see like a huge dainasor or something at that time you will say oh my god or
ูŠุง ุงู„ู‡ูŠ ู…ุง ู‡ุฐุง

_phy5_
16 Apr 2015

  • Arabic

Elahi comes from elah which is the literal translation of the word god so its really normal for muslims to use both phrases, colloquially there's a slight difference:
Ya allah = oh god / oh allah used when u r praying and asking for something or expressing shock/wonder/liking or sympathy!

Ya elahi = oh my god! U'll usually find this one in books / arabic subtitles and won't hear arabs say it as much if they did use it though they are more likely complaining about something ๐Ÿ˜
So if u werent sure about which one u should use take a breathe and use the one u like better cuz technically they are synonyms ๐Ÿ˜โœŒ๏ธ and if u r a lil allergic towards the word Allah like if u r a buddhist or something use elahi ๐Ÿ˜‰

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