From phma@oltronics.net Sat Jun 02 19:30:50 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 3 Jun 2001 02:30:50 -0000 Received: (qmail 34232 invoked from network); 3 Jun 2001 02:30:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 3 Jun 2001 02:30:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO neofelis.ixazon.lan) (207.15.133.43) by mta1 with SMTP; 3 Jun 2001 02:30:47 -0000 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id 087B03C55C; Sat, 2 Jun 2001 22:23:32 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: phma@oltronics.net To: Subject: Re: [lojban] Allah Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 22:02:51 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.29.2] Content-Type: text/plain References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01060222233107.22635@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com From: Pierre Abbat About the form "Allahu", I found some passages in which "Allah" occurs in that form. "Allahu" is the nominative, "Allahi" is the genitive, and "Allaha" (which does not occur on this page) is the accusative. I could give a reference to LaSor about that, but at the moment I don't know where the books are. http://kuc01.kuniv.edu.kw/~stevens/ia/a-bible.htm But as that page demonstrates, "Allah" is what Arabs call God, whether they are Muslims, Jews, or Christians. So the word should be rendered "la cevni". A Muslim speaking Lojban will, though, find dozens of terms that don't have equivalents in Lojban, and so will make up words like "flalrfixu" and "curmrxalalu". By the way, the 99 names are at http://www.themodernreligion.com/basic/islam_99_names.htm . Al-Majid occurs twice, the second time begging the question. phma