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I don’t realize that. My two go-to references do not say that the word actually means what you claim.Dictionary.com - The world’s favorite online dictionary!interjectionPraise ye the Lord!Online Etymology Dictionaryhallelujahalso halleluiah, 1530s, from Late Latin hallelujah, alleluia, from Greek allelouia, from Hebrew hallalu-yah "praise ye Jehovah," from hallalu, plural imperative of hallel "to praise" also "song of praise," from hillel "he praised," of imitative origin, with primary sense being "to trill." Second element is yah, shortened form of Yahweh, name of God. Earlier English form alleluia (12c.) is from Old French alleluie.Where did you get your information?EDIT: Several comments seem to imply that the OP’s assertion is true because “Allah” is the Arabic word for the same God the Hebrews called Yahweh. But the question was not about the referent. It was about the word itself: lexicography and historical linguistics, not usage.To find out what the word “actually” means, you need to go back to its origin. And its origin is the Hebrew Jah, or Yahweh, not the Arabic Allah. They are not two versions of the same word. Allah is cognate with Hebrew eloah, not with Yahweh.The fact that a word has the same referent as a word in another language doesn’t mean that the foreign word is its “actual meaning.” By that logic you could assert that the English word headache actually means “cabeza-ache,” because the Spanish word cabeza refers to the same thing as the English word head. But that would be an absurd assertion.

children.one: childmore than one: childrenThe reason this word does not form the plural by adding an “s” or “es” is because it is of Germanic origin and is partially declined as nouns are in Germanic languages.English used to be a Germanic language; the term “Anglo-Saxon” denotes the geographical area in Germany from which people emigrated to England. When these settlers arrived, they spoke a dialect of German. Subsequently, after the Norman invasion (11th Century), the French language was mixed with Anglo-Saxon English. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the language experienced an influx of new words that were constructed of Greek and Latin elements. The increase in constructed words was an attempt to be more specific in political, legal, and commercial transactions, as England rose in prominence among the nations of Europe. As a result of these incorporations, we have an irregular system of grammar in our unique language.Today, there are remnants of original Germanic words in English that do not form the plural by adding “s” as there is a different system of forming plurals in German. These words are usually basic words, such as “child / children”:man / menwoman / womensheep / sheeptooth / teethfoot / feet

Why many countries' names end with 'ia'?I find many countries’ names end with ‘ia’, such as Austria, Russia, Romania, Croatia, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Serbia, Slovenia and so on.It is a continuation of the Greek and Latin custom to form names of identifiable conditions and groups using this word ending.__________"-ia"http://wordinfo.info/unit/1023"-ia": from Latin: a suffix that forms nouns; state of, condition of, quality of; act of)Online Etymology Dictionary“-ia” - word-forming element in names of countries, diseases, and flowers, from Latin and Greek -ia, noun ending, in Greek especially used in forming abstract nouns (typically of feminine gender). The classical suffix in its usual evolution (via French -ie) comes to Modern English as -y (as in familia/family, also -logy, -graphy).