Reference > Brewer’s Dictionary > Alla or Allah (that is, al-ilah).

 All-work.Alla Akbar’. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Alla or Allah (that is, al-ilah).
 
“The adorable.” The Arabic name of the Supreme Being.   1
       
“The city won fo Allah from the Giaour.”
       
Byron: Childe Harold, ii. 77.
 


 All-work.Alla Akbar’. 

 
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