hallelujah

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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˌhæl.əˈl(j)uː.jə/
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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /-ɪ-/
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• CMU ARPABET: HH AE2 L AH0 L UW1 Y AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Biblical Hebrew הַלְּלוּ (halləlū) Biblical Hebrew יָהּ (yɔh) Biblical Hebrew הַלְּלוּיָהּ (halləlūyɔh)lbor. English hallelujah Learned borrowing from Biblical Hebrew הַלְּלוּיָהּ (halləlūyɔh), from הַלְּלוּ (halləlū, “praise!”) + יָהּ (yɔh, “Lord, Jah”).

136 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Aghwan: 𐔰𐔾𐔶𐔾𐕒𐕡𐔺𐔰 (alēluya) — exclamation to praise God
• Amharic: ሃሌሉያ (haleluya) — exclamation to praise God
• Arabic: هَلِّلُويَا (hallilūyā) — exclamation to praise God
• Arabic: هَلُولِيَا (halūliyā) — exclamation to praise God
• Arabic: الْحَمْدُ لِلّٰهِ (al-ḥamdu lillāhi) — exclamation to praise God
• Aramaic: ܗܲܠܹܠܘܼܝܵܐ (hallēlūyā) — exclamation to praise God
• Armenian: ալելուիա (aleluia) — exclamation to praise God
• Belarusian: алілу́я (alilúja) — exclamation to praise God
• Bulgarian: алелу́я (alelúja) — exclamation to praise God
• Bulgarian: алилу́я (alilúja) — exclamation to praise God
• Catalan: al·leluia — exclamation to praise God
• Chinese Cantonese: 哈利路亞 /哈利路亚 (haa1 lei1 lu1 jaa4, haa1 li1 lu1 jaa4) — exclamation to praise God
• Hakka Chinese: 哈利路亞 /哈利路亚 (hâ-li-lu-yá) — exclamation to praise God
• Chinese: ha-lé-lú-iah — exclamation to praise God
• Chinese Mandarin: 哈利路亞 /哈利路亚 (hālìlùyà) — exclamation to praise God
• Chinese Mandarin: 阿利路亞 /阿利路亚 (ālìlùyà) — exclamation to praise God
• Chinese Mandarin: 阿肋路亞 /阿肋路亚 (ālèlùyà) — exclamation to praise God
• Czech: aleluja — exclamation to praise God
• Czech: halejuja — exclamation to praise God
• Danish: halleluja — exclamation to praise God
• Dutch: hallelujah — exclamation to praise God
• Dutch: alleluja — exclamation to praise God
• Dutch: halleluja — exclamation to praise God
• Esperanto: haleluja — exclamation to praise God
• Estonian: halleluuja — exclamation to praise God
• Finnish: halleluja — exclamation to praise God
• French: alléluia — exclamation to praise God
• Georgian: ალილუია (aliluia) — exclamation to praise God
• German: halleluja — exclamation to praise God
• Greek: αλληλούια (alliloúia) — exclamation to praise God
• Ancient Greek: ἀλληλούϊα (allēloúïa) — exclamation to praise God
• Hebrew: הַלְּלוּיָהּ (hallelúyah) — exclamation to praise God
• Hindi: हालेलुया (hāleluyā) — exclamation to praise God
• Hungarian: alleluja — exclamation to praise God
• Icelandic: hallelúja — exclamation to praise God
• Indonesian: haleluya — exclamation to praise God
• Interlingua: alleluia — exclamation to praise God
• Irish: aililiú — exclamation to praise God
• Italian: alleluia — exclamation to praise God
• Japanese: ハレルヤ (hareruya) — exclamation to praise God
• Kannada: ಹಲ್ಲೆಲೂಯಾ (hallelūyā) — exclamation to praise God
• Khmer: ហាលេលូយ៉ា (haaleiluuyaa) — exclamation to praise God
• Korean: 할렐루야 (hallelluya) — exclamation to praise God
• Latin: allēlūia — exclamation to praise God
• Lingala: aleluya — exclamation to praise God
• Lisu: ꓧ-ꓡꓲ-ꓡꓴ-ꓬ (xɑ-li-lu-jɑ) — exclamation to praise God
• Lithuanian: aleliùja — exclamation to praise God
• Lombard: alleluia — exclamation to praise God
• Macedonian: алелу̀ја (alelùja) — exclamation to praise God
• Malay: hallelujah — exclamation to praise God
• Malay: halleluyah — exclamation to praise God
• Malay: alleluia — exclamation to praise God
• Malayalam: ഹല്ലേലൂയ (hallēlūya) — exclamation to praise God
• Māori: hareruia — exclamation to praise God
• Nias: haleluya — exclamation to praise God
• Norwegian: halleluja — exclamation to praise God
• Norwegian Nynorsk: halleluja — exclamation to praise God
• Old Church Slavonic: аллилоуіа (alliluia) — exclamation to praise God
• Persian: هلهلویا (hale-luya) — exclamation to praise God
• Polish: alleluja — exclamation to praise God
• Polish: hosanna — exclamation to praise God
• Portuguese: aleluia — exclamation to praise God
• Romanian: aliluia — exclamation to praise God
• Romanian: aleluia — exclamation to praise God
• Russian: аллилу́йя (allilújja) — exclamation to praise God
• Russian: сла́ва бо́гу (sláva bógu) — exclamation to praise God
• Russian: ура́ (urá) — exclamation to praise God
• Sardinian: alleluia — exclamation to praise God
• Sardinian: allelujah — exclamation to praise God
• Sardinian: halleluyah — exclamation to praise God
• Serbo-Croatian: алелуја — exclamation to praise God
• Serbo-Croatian: aleluja — exclamation to praise God
• Slovak: aleluja — exclamation to praise God
• Slovak: halejuja — exclamation to praise God
• Slovene: aleluja — exclamation to praise God
• Spanish: aleluya — exclamation to praise God
• Swahili: alleluia — exclamation to praise God
• Swedish: halleluja — exclamation to praise God
• Tagalog: aleluya — exclamation to praise God
• Tamil: அல்லேலூயா (allēlūyā) — exclamation to praise God
• Telugu: హల్లెలూయా (hallelūyā) — exclamation to praise God
• Thai: อัลเลลูยา (an-lee-luu-yaa) — exclamation to praise God
• Thai: อาเลลูยา (aa-lee-luu-yaa) — exclamation to praise God
• Thai: ฮาเลลูยา (haa-lee-luu-yaa) — exclamation to praise God
• Tibetan: གཙོ་བོ་དཀོན་མཆོག་ཁོང་ལ་བསྟོད་བསྔོགས་ཤིག (gtso bo dkon mchog khong la bstod bsngogs shig) — exclamation to praise God
• Turkish: haleluya — exclamation to praise God
• Turkish: alleluya — exclamation to praise God
• Turkish: aleluya — exclamation to praise God
• Turkish: elhamdülillah — exclamation to praise God
• Ukrainian: алілу́я (alilúja) — exclamation to praise God
• Ukrainian: алилу́я (alylúja) — exclamation to praise God
• Urdu: ہللی (haliluy) — exclamation to praise God
• Vietnamese: hallelujah — exclamation to praise God
• Yami: haliloya — exclamation to praise God
• Yoruba: alelúyà — exclamation to praise God
• Yoruba: halelúyà — exclamation to praise God
• Arabic: الْحَمْدُ لِلّٰهِ (al-ḥamdu lillāhi) — general exclamation of gratitude
• Belarusian: сла́ва бо́гу (sláva bóhu) — general exclamation of gratitude
• Catalan: al·leluia — general exclamation of gratitude
• Danish: gudskelov — general exclamation of gratitude
• Esperanto: haleluja — general exclamation of gratitude
• Finnish: halleluja — general exclamation of gratitude
• German: Gott sei Dank — general exclamation of gratitude
• Greek: αλληλούια (alliloúia) — general exclamation of gratitude
• Ancient Greek: ἀλληλούϊα (allēloúïa) — general exclamation of gratitude
• Italian: alleluia — general exclamation of gratitude
• Italian: grazie a Dio — general exclamation of gratitude
• Malagasy: aleloia — general exclamation of gratitude
• Portuguese: aleluia — general exclamation of gratitude
• Russian: сла́ва бо́гу (sláva bógu) — general exclamation of gratitude
• Serbo-Croatian: алелуја — general exclamation of gratitude
• Serbo-Croatian: aleluja — general exclamation of gratitude
• Spanish: aleluya — general exclamation of gratitude
• Swahili: alleluia — general exclamation of gratitude
• Turkish: Allah'a çok şükür — general exclamation of gratitude
• Turkish: Tanrı yarasın — general exclamation of gratitude
• Ukrainian: сла́ва бо́гу (sláva bóhu) — general exclamation of gratitude
• Finnish: halleluja — shout of Hallelujah
• German: Halleluja — shout of Hallelujah
• Hungarian: alleluja — shout of Hallelujah
• Icelandic: hallelúja — shout of Hallelujah
• Irish: aililiú — shout of Hallelujah
• Plautdietsch: Haleluja — shout of Hallelujah
• Portuguese: aleluia — shout of Hallelujah
• Russian: аллилу́йя (allilújja) — shout of Hallelujah
• Spanish: aleluya — shout of Hallelujah
• Yoruba: alelúyà — shout of Hallelujah
• Polish: alleluja — song
• Finnish: ylistys — general praise
• Hungarian: alleluja — general praise
• Russian: аллилу́йя (allilújja) — general praise
• Spanish: felicitación — general praise
• Spanish: congratulación — general praise
• Hungarian: allelujázik — to cry "Hallelujah"
• Indonesian: berhaleluya — to cry "Hallelujah"
• Yoruba: ké alelúyà — to cry "Hallelujah"