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Alternative forms

od (archaic, regional, euphemistic)
god (as proper noun, often derogatory or in philosophy)
gawd, Gawd, g-d, G-d

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew-

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰutós?

Proto-Germanic *gudą

Proto-West Germanic *god

Old English god

Middle English god

Middle English God

English God

Derived from Middle English God. See god.

Pronunciation

(UK) enPR: gŏd, IPA^(key): /ɡɒd/, /ɡɔːd/
- Audio (UK): (file)
(African-American Vernacular) IPA^(key): /ɡɑ(d)/
(US) IPA^(key): /ɡɑd/
- Audio (US): (file)
Rhymes: -ɒd
Homophone: gaud (cot–caught merger)

Proper noun

God (usually uncountable, plural Gods)

The first deity of various theistic religions, and the only deity in the Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
Dawn believes in God, but Willow believes in multiple gods and goddesses.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 John 4:8:
  Hee that loueth not, knoweth not God: for God is loue
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 John 4:16:
  God is loue, and hee that dwelleth in loue, dwelleth in God, and God in him.
- 1741, [Samuel Richardson], Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded. […], 3rd edition, volume II, London: […] C[harles] Rivington, […]; and J. Osborn, […], →OCLC, page 388:
  ...God, the All-gracious, the All-good, the All-bountiful, the All-mighty, the All-merciful God...
- 1911, Katharine Harris Bradley as Michael Field, Accuser, page 158:
  The Muéddin: God is great, there is no God but God.
- 1971 [1963 November 22], Lyndon Johnson, “The Beginning”, in The Vantage Point‎^[1], Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 17:
  This is a sad time for all people. We have suffered a loss that cannot be weighed. For me, it is a deep personal tragedy. I know that the world shares the sorrow that Mrs. Kennedy and her family bear. I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help — and God's.
- Paragraph 73, R v Brenton Harrison Tarrant (Sentencing remarks) ([2020] NZHC 2192)
  He (n.b.: a Muslim) has told me that he will not allow one person’s actions to stop him from praying to his God.
- 2011, Steve Urick, Practical Christian Living, →ISBN, page 214:
  All this will culminate in a final showdown in Israel between the true Lord (Jehovah) God of Israel and the false god (Allah) of Mecca (the center of pagan idolatry in Arabia, at the Kaaba) […]
1. (Trinitarian Christianity) God the Father as distinguished from Jesus Christ, God the Son.
  - 1899, The Sunday School Journal, page 378:
    God sent Jesus to earth to be the King of the Jews; that is, the one to tell them what they should do. […] I will tell you why God let Jesus die upon the cross.
The single male deity of various bitheistic or duotheistic religions.
- 2001, Timothy Freke, Peter Gandy, Jesus and the Lost Goddess, page 133:
  The ancients represented this fundamental duality mythologically as God and Goddess. When Mystery looks at itself, God looks at Goddess.
- 2005, Nikki Bado-Fralick, Coming to the Edge of the Circle, page 45:
  This reduces the successful invocation of God to a function of the presence of male genitalia. Put another way, women have the wrong equipment to invoke God.
  Goddess and God flow throughout all of nature, through each and every man and woman, becoming fully present in the world.
- 2006, Ronald L. Clark, The Grace of Being, page 22:
  God and Goddess watched as the finite universe continued to develop into a stable platform to sustain finite life and were pleased.
(philosophy) The transcendent principle, for example the ultimate cause or prime mover, often not considered as a person.
- 1895, “The Tâo-Tĭh-King, or Thoughts on the Nature and Manifestations of God”, in G. G. Alexander, transl., Lâo-Tsze the Great Thinker […], page 55:
  God (the great everlasting infinite First Cause from whom all things in heaven and earth proceed) [translating Chinese 道] can neither be defined nor named.
- 2000, Catriona Hanley, Being and God in Aristotle and Heidegger, →ISBN, page 195:
  For Aristotle, God as the ultimate ground is the being that is responsible for the workings of the rational cosmos, but not for itself.
- 2017, Aryeh Finkelberg, Heraclitus and Thales’ Conceptual Scheme: A Historical Study, →ISBN, page 156:
  Now, if night, winter, hunger, and war, which describe the God’s appearance as the multiple world, are his ‘scents’ and ‘names’, the same must be true of the world’s several constituents: all created things are just transient ‘scents’, and their names misnomers, of the fiery God.

Usage notes

The word "God" is capitalized in reference to the Abrahamic deity of the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic faiths almost without exception, even when preceded by various qualifiers.^[1] The term is frequently, but not always, capitalized in vaguer deistic references to a single deity as well. It's also capitalized in Sikhism.

Monotheistic Gods are traditionally referenced in English with masculine pronouns and (when depicted) anthropomorphized in the form of adult men, but also traditionally held by theologians to be beyond human sex or gender. Like other languages employing Latin script, English pronouns referring to a God traditionally begin with a capital letter as a sign of respect: He, Him, His, and Himself in the third person and Thee, Thy, Thine, Thyself or You, Your, and Yourself in direct address. However, this use is not universal and the King James Version of the Bible, as well as other modern translations, employ standard uncapitalized pronouns.^[2] See also: LORD.

Some Jews consider the English word "God" to fall under the Hebrew khumra concerning the avoidance of blasphemy, preferring to use the form G-d or alternatives such as Hashem, Lord, etc.

According to Trinitarian branches of Christianity (e.g., Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, most Protestant denominations), God and the Holy Trinity are one and the same, with three distinct persons: the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are all God, but none of the three are one or both of the other persons.

Quotations

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Synonyms

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Derived terms

Descendants

→ Pohnpeian: Koht

Translations

single deity of monotheism — see also god,‎ deity

Afrikaans: God
Aghwan: 𐔱𐔼𐕀𐔰𐕃𐕒𐕡𐕘 (bixaʒ́uġ)
Ainu: カムイ (kamuy)
Albanian: perëndi (sq), hyjni (sq), zot (sq), All-llah/u
Old Albanian: hyll
Amharic: እግዜር m (ʾəgzer), እግዚአብሔር m (ʾəgziʾäbḥer)
Apache:
Western Apache: yóósn
Arabic: الله (ar) m (allāh), إِلَٰه (ar) (ʔilāh), الرَّبّ m (ar-rabb)
Egyptian Arabic: ربنا m (rabbena), الله m (ʔallāh)

Moroccan Arabic: ربي m (rabbi), الله (ʔallāh)
Aragonese: Dios
Aramaic:
Classical Syriac: ܐܠܗܐ m (ʾălāhā), ܐܝܠ m (ʾêl)

Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: אֲלָהָא m (ʾălāhā), אֵל m (ʾēl)
Armenian: Աստված (Astvac)
Aromanian: dumnidzã
Assamese: ভগৱান (bhogowan)
Asturian: Dios (ast) m
Aymara: Tatitu
Azerbaijani: Allah (az), Rabb, Tanrı, Xuda
Bafia: Bɛ̀ll
Balti: خُدَا (xudâ), ཁུ༹་དཱ (xu dā)
Baluchi: ہدا (huda), خدا (xuda), الله (Allah)
Bashkir: Алла (Alla), Аллаһ (Allah)
Basque: Jainko
Belarusian: бог m (boh), Бог m (Boh)
Belizean Creole: Gaad
Bengali: আল্লাহ (bn) (allah), খোদা (bn) (khōda), ঈশ্বর (bn) (iśśor)
Bikol Central: Dyos (bcl), Kagurangnan
Breton: Doue (br)
Bulgarian: бог (bg) m (bog)
Burmese: ^{(please verify)} ဘုရားသခင် (bhu.ra:sa.hkang)
Caló: Debel m
Catalan: Déu (ca) m
Chamicuro: yosi
Chechen: Дела (Dela)
Cherokee: ᎤᏁᏆ (unequa), ᎠᏓᏅᏙ (adanvdo), ᎤᏁᎳᏅᎯ (unelanvhi), ᎡᏙᏓ (edoda)
Cheyenne: ma'heo'o
Chichewa: Mulungu
Chickasaw: Chihoowa
Chinese:
Cantonese: 上帝 (soeng⁶ dai³), 天主 (tin¹ zyu²) (Catholicism), 真主 (zan¹ zyu²) (Islam)

Dungan: Хўда (Hwda), Анлахў (Anlahw) (Islam), Анла (Anla) (Islam)

Eastern Min: 上帝 (Sióng-dá̤)

Hokkien: 上帝 (zh-min-nan) (Siōng-tè), 天主 (Thian-chú) (Catholicism), 真主 (Tsin-chú) (in Islam)

Mandarin: 上帝 (zh) (Shàngdì), 天主 (zh) (Tiānzhǔ) (Catholicism), 真主 (zh) (Zhēnzhǔ) (Islam)
Chuvash: Турӑ (Tură)
Coptic: ⲡ ⲛⲟⲩⲧⲉ (pnoute) (Sahidic), ⲫ ⲛⲟⲩϯ (phnouti) (Bohairic), ⲫϯ (phti)
Cornish: Duw
Corsican: Diu
Czech: Bůh (cs) m
Dalmatian: Di
Danish: Gud (da) c
Deori: Kundi, Kundimama
Dusner: Mansren, Aisnan
Dutch: God (nl) m
Eastern Arrernte: ngkarte
Erzya: Инешкипаз (Ineškipaz)
Esperanto: Dio (eo)
Estonian: jumal (et)
Ewe: Mawu
Farefare: yɩnɛ, wẽnnɛ
Faroese: Gud m, Guð m
Finnish: Jumala (fi), jumala (fi)
French: Dieu (fr) m
Middle French: Dieu m

Old French: Deus m
Friulian: Diu m, Idiu m, Signôr m
Fula: Alla
Galician: Deus (gl) m
Georgian: ღმერთი (ka) (ɣmerti)
German: Gott (de) m
Gothic: 𐌲𐌿𐌸 (guþ)
Greek: Θεός (el) m (Theós)
Ancient: Θεός m (Theós)
Greenlandic: Guuti
Guaraní: Ñandejára (gn), Tupã (gn)
Gun: Maáwó Mawü Mahou Manwu
Haitian Creole: Bondye
Hakka: Songti
Hausa: Allàh (ha)
Hawaiian: Akua
Hebrew: אלוהים / אֱלֹהִים (he) (elohím)
Hindi: ईश्वर (hi) m (īśvar), परमेश्वर (hi) m (parmeśvar), भगवान (hi) m (bhagvān), परमात्मा (hi) m (parmātmā), देवता (hi) m (devtā), दैवता m (daivtā), ख़ुदा (hi) m (xudā), खुदा (hi) m (khudā), अल्लाह (hi) m (allāh), इलाही (hi) m (ilāhī), रब (hi) m (rab), अकाल (hi) m (akāl), वाहेगुरु m (vāheguru), प्रभु (hi) m (prabhu), देव (hi) m (dev), राम (hi) m (rām), ऊँकार m (ū̃kār), साहिब (hi) m (sāhib), साहब (hi) m (sāhab)
Hittite: [script needed] (siu)
Hungarian: Isten (hu)
Hunsrik: Kot
Icelandic: Guð (is) m
Igbo: Chineke
Ilocano: Dios
Inari Sami: Immeel
Indonesian: Allah (id), Tuhan (id)
Ingrian: Jumala
Interlingua: Deo
Irish: Dia (ga) m
Istriot: Deîo m
Italian: Dio (it) m
Japanese: 神 (ja) (かみ, kami), 神様 (ja) (かみさま, kamisama), デウス
Javanese: Bethara, Allah, Tuhan (jv)
Judeo-Italian: דֵית (deṯ /⁠Deo⁠/)
Judeo-Tat: худо (xudo)
Kabardian: Тхьэ (Tḥɛ)
Kabyle: Ṛebbi, Sidi Ṛebbi, Yuc
Kaingang: Topẽ
Kamba: Ngai
Kannada: ದೇವರು (kn) (dēvaru)
Karelian: Jumala
Kazakh: Құдай (kk) (Qūdai), Алла (Alla), Тәңір (Täñır)
Khalaj: Allâh
Khiamniungan Naga: Kōuh-ō,
Khmer: ព្រះ (km) (prĕəh)
Kikuyu: Ngai class 1, Mũrungu
Korean: 신(神) (ko) (sin), 하느님 (ko) (haneunim)
Koyraboro Senni: allaahu, irkoy
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: اللھ (allh), خودا (ckb) (xuda), خوا (xwa)

Northern Kurdish: Xwedê (ku), Xuda (ku), Elah (ku)
Kyrgyz: Худай (Huday), Тенгири (Tengiri), Алла (Alla), Аллах (Allah)
Ladino:
Latin: El Dyo m
Lakota: Wakȟáŋ Tȟáŋka
Lao: ພະເຈົ້າ (pha chao)
Latgalian: Dīvs m
Latin: Deus (la) m
Latvian: Dievs (lv) m
Laz: ღორმოთი (ğormoti), თანგრი (tangri)
Ligurian: Dîo m
Lingala: Nzámbe
Lishana Deni: אֶלְהׇא (ʾelha), אילאהא (ʾilāha)
Lithuanian: Dievas (lt) m
Low German: Goäd m
Luhya: wele
Luo: Nyasae
Macedonian: Бог (mk) m (Bog)
Malagasy: Andriamanitra (mg)
Malay: Tuhan (ms) m, Allah (ms) m
Maltese: Alla (mt)
Manchu: ᡝᠨᡩᡠᡵᡳ (enduri), ᠠᠮᠠ (ama)
Manx: Jee
Maori: Atua
Maranao: Tohan
Mbyá Guaraní: Nhanderuete
Middle Dutch: God
Mingrelian: ღორონთი (ɣoronti)
Mòcheno: Gott m
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: бурхан (mn) (burxan)

Mongolian: ᠪᠤᠷᠬᠠᠨ (burqan)
Moore: wẽnde, Wẽnnaam
Nandi: Asis
Nauruan: Gott
Navajo: Diyin Ayóó Átʼéii, Diyin God
Nepali: भगवान् (bhagavān), देवता (devatā), ईश्वर (ne) (īśwar), परमप्रभु (paramprabhu), परमेश्वर (parmeśwar), परमात्मा (parmātmā)
Newar: परमप्रभु (paramaprabhu)
Ngazidja Comorian: Mngu
Northern Sami: Ipmil, avgud
Northern Sotho: Modimo
Norwegian:
Bokmål: Gud m, Herre (no) m

Nynorsk: Gud m, Herre m
Nǀuu: Suǁoa
Occitan: Dieu (oc) m
Odia: ସଦାପ୍ରଭୁ (or) (sadāprabhu)
Ogun: Manwou Maáwó Mawü
Ojibwe: gichi-manidoo
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: богъ m (bogŭ), Богъ m (Bogŭ)
Old English: God m
Old Norse: goð m, guð m
Old Occitan: Deu
Old Prussian: Deiwas m
Old Saxon: God
Old Tupi: Tupã
Oromo: Waaqa (om), Waaqayyo
Ossetian: Хуыцау (X°ycaw), дзуар (ʒwar)
Ottawa: gchi-mnidoo
Pashto: خدای (ps) m (xwdāy), الله (ps) (Allah)
Persian: خدا (fa) (xodâ), الله (fa) (allâh)
Plautdietsch: Gott (nds) m
Polish: Bóg (pl) m
Portuguese: Deus (pt) m
Potawatomi: kche-mnedo
Quechua: Dyus
Romani: Devel m
Balkan Romani: Del m (Bugurdži), devel m (Kosovo Arli)

Baltic Romani: dêêl m (Latvian), deevel m (Latvian), devel m (Latvian), Dēvēl m (Litovska)

Carpathian Romani: Del m (Burgenland, East Slovak, Gurvari, Hungarian Vend, Romungro)

Vlax Romani: del m (Banatiski Gurbet), Del m (Gurbet, Kalderaš), Devlesko m (Gurbet), Dîl m (Gurbet), Dol m (Gurbet)
Romanian: Dumnezeu (ro) m
Romansch: Dieu m
Russian: Бог (ru) m (Box), Госпо́дь (ru) m (Gospódʹ), Алла́х (ru) m (Alláx) (Islam)
Rwanda-Rundi: Imana
Saanich: XA¸EL¸S, ŦI¸ŦEȽ SI¸ÁM¸
Samogitian: Dievs m (modern), Dėivs m (archaic)
Sango: Nzapa
Scots: God
Scottish Gaelic: Dia (gd) m
Semai: Nyenang
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Бо̑г m, Го̏спод m, Аллах m, Алах m (Islam)

Roman: Bȏg (sh) m, Gȍspod (sh) m, Allah m, Alah m (Islam)
Shona: Mwari
Sicilian: Diu
Sindhi: خدا (sd), رب
Sinhalese: දෙවියන්වහන්සේ (dewiyanwahansē)
Slovak: Boh (sk) m
Slovene: Bóg (sl) m
Somali: Eebe, Ilaah, Allaah, Waaq
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: Bog m

Upper Sorbian: Bóh m
Sotho: Modimo, Ramasedi, Raseokamelabatho
Spanish: Dios (es) m
Sranan Tongo: Gado, Anana
Swahili: Mungu, Allah (sw) (in Islam)
Swedish: Gud (sv) c, gudaväsen c
Tagalog: Diyos (tl), Panginoon, Maykapal (tl), Bathala
Tajik: Худо (Xudo), Оллоҳ (tg) (Olloh)
Tamil: ஆண்டவன் (ta) (āṇṭavaṉ)
Tatar: Ходай (Xoday), Тәңре (Täñre), Алла (tt) (Alla), Аллах (Allax)
Telugu: గాడ్ (gāḍ), దేవుడు (te) (dēvuḍu)
Thai: พระเจ้า (th) (prá-jâao)
Tibetan: ལྷ (lha), དབང་ཕྱུག (dbang phyug), དཀོན་མཆོག (dkon mchog)
Tigrinya: እግዚኣብሄር (ʾəgziʾabher)
Turkish: Allah (tr), Tanrı (tr), Yaradan (tr), Huda (tr), Hak (tr), Çalap (tr)
Turkmen: Allah, Taňry, Alla (tk), Hudaý
Tuvan: Бурган (Burgan)
Udi: бихаджугъ (biχaǯuɣ), бухаджогъ (buχaǯoɣ)
Ukrainian: бог (uk) m (boh), Бог (uk) m (Boh)
Urdu: اللہ (ur) (allāh), خدا (ur) m (xudā), پروردگار m (parvardigār), اوپر والا m (ūpar vālā), رب m (rabb), مولا m (maulā), خداوند m (xudāvand)
Uyghur: تەڭرى (tengri), خۇدا (ug) (xuda), ئاللاھ (ug) (allah)
Uzbek: Alloh, Xudo, Таңри
Cyrillic: Аллоҳ (Alloh)
Venetan: Dio
Veps: Jumal
Vietnamese: Chúa (vi), Thiên Chúa (vi), Trời, Thượng Đế (vi), đấng Tạo Hóa
Võro: Jummal
Walloon: Bon Diu (wa)
Welsh: Duw (cy)
West Frisian: God (fy) c
Western Panjabi: خدا (pnb) (xdā)
White Hmong: Tswv Ntuj (Catholicism), Vaj Tswv (Protestantism)
Wolof: Yàlla
Xhosa: uThixo
Yakut: Таҥара (Tañara)
Yaqui: Lios
Yiddish: גאָט m (got), השם m (hashem), כּבֿיכול (kev(i)yokhl) (euphemism)
Yoruba: Ọlọ́run
Yup'ik: Agayun, Ellam Yua
Zazaki: Homa (diq), Car (diq), Allah (diq)
Zulu: Ujehova, uNkulunkulu
ǃXóõ: bīhi sà bòlo

single male deity of duotheism

Afrikaans: God
Albanian: Perëndia m
Arabic: اِلٰه m (ilāh)
Armenian: աստված (hy) (astvac)
Bashkir: Алла (Alla), Аллаһ (Allah)
Bengali: ঈশ্বর (bn) (iśśor)
Catalan: Déu (ca) m
Chechen: Дела (Dela)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 神 (zh) (Shén), 男神 (Nánshén)
Czech: Bůh (cs) m
Dutch: God (nl) m
Esperanto: Dio (eo)
Estonian: jumal (et)
Finnish: jumala (fi)
French: Dieu (fr) m
Georgian: ღმერთი (ka) (ɣmerti), ღვთაება (ɣvtaeba)
German: Gott (de) m
Greek: Θεός (el) m (Theós)
Hindi: ईश्वर (hi) m (īśvar), परमेश्वर (hi) m (parmeśvar), भगवान (hi) m (bhagvān), परमात्मा (hi) m (parmātmā), देवता (hi) m (devtā), दैवता m (daivtā), ख़ुदा (hi) m (xudā), खुदा (hi) m (khudā), अल्लाह (hi) m (allāh), इलाही (hi) m (ilāhī), रब (hi) m (rab), अकाल (hi) m (akāl), वाहेगुरु m (vāheguru), प्रभु (hi) m (prabhu), देव (hi) m (dev), राम (hi) m (rām), ऊँकार m (ū̃kār), करतार (hi) m (kartār), सिरजनहार (hi) m (sirjanhār), साहिब (hi) m (sāhib), साहब (hi) m (sāhab)
Ilocano: Dios
Italian: Dio (it) m
Japanese: 神 (ja) (かみ, kami), 神様 (ja) (かみさま, kamisama)
Kazakh: Жаратқан Ие (Jaratqan İe)
Khmer: ព្រះ (km) (prĕəh)
Lao: ພະເຈົ້າ (pha chao)
Lithuanian: Dievas (lt) m
Macedonian: бог m (bog)
Maltese: Alla (mt) m
Newar: परमप्रभु (paramaprabhu)
Occitan: Dieu (oc) m
Portuguese: Deus (pt) m
Romanian: Dumnezeu (ro) m
Russian: бог (ru) m (box)
Scottish Gaelic: Dia (gd) m
Spanish: Dios (es) m
Swedish: Gud (sv) m
Tagalog: Diyos (tl), Panginoon, Maykapal (tl)
Telugu: దేవుడు (te) (dēvuḍu)
Thai: พระเจ้า (th) (prá-jâao)
Tibetan: དབང་ཕྱུག (dbang phyug)
Turkish: tanrı (tr), ilah (tr), tengri (tr)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

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Basque: ^{(please verify)} Jaungoiko / ^{(please verify)} Jaungoikoa, ^{(please verify)} Jainko / ^{(please verify)} Jainkoa
Bulgarian: ^{(please verify)} бог (bg) m (bog)
Cebuano: ^{(please verify)} Diyos
French: ^{(please verify)} Dieu (fr) m
Gilbertese: ^{(please verify)} atua
Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} יהוה (he) (YHWH /⁠Adonái⁠/), ^{(please verify)} השם (he) (ha-Shem) (reverent form, lit. "the Name"), ^{(please verify)} אלוהים (he) (ĕlōhîm) (lit. "Gods" plural, refers to the one God), ^{(please verify)} אל (he) (El) or ^{(please verify)} האל (ha-El) (God), ^{(please verify)} 'ה or ^{(please verify)} יי or ^{(please verify)} 'ד (Adonai) (abbr. forms), ^{(please verify)} אדֹני (he) (phonetic "Adonai"), ^{(please verify)} יה (he) ("Yah," as in "Halleluyah"), ^{(please verify)} ריבונו של עולם (Ribono shel Olam) (Master of the Universe), ^{(please verify)} שכינה (he) (Sh'chinah) (Divine Presence, often used to refer to a feminine interpretation of God)
Icelandic: ^{(please verify)} Guð (is)
Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} Tuhan (id)
Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} Deo
Latin: ^{(please verify)} Deus (la) m
Lithuanian: ^{(please verify)} Dievas (lt) m
Luganda: ^{(please verify)} Katonda
Nauruan: ^{(please verify)} Gott
Occitan: ^{(please verify)} Deu m
Old Prussian: ^{(please verify)} Deiwas m
Persian: ^{(please verify)} خُداوَند (fa) (xodâvand)
Punjabi: ^{(please verify)} ਰੱਬ (pa) (rabba), ^{(please verify)} ਵਾਹਿਗੁਰੂ (pa) (vāhigurū), ^{(please verify)} ਪਰਮੇਸ਼ੁਰ (parmeśur)
Sardinian: ^{(please verify)} Deus m
Spanish: ^{(please verify)} Dios (es) m
Swahili: ^{(please verify)} Allah (sw) (noun 1)
Swedish: ^{(please verify)} Gud (sv) m
Tausug: ^{(please verify)} Tuhan
Thai: ^{(please verify)} พระเจ้า (th) (phrā jào), ^{(please verify)} เทพเจ้า (th) (thèhp jào)
Welsh: ^{(please verify)} Duw (cy) m

Noun

God (plural Gods)

A being such as a monotheistic God: a single divine creator and ruler of the universe.
- 1563, Barnabe Googe, Eglogs, Epytaphes, and Sonettes, sig. Cviiiv:
  A God there is, that guyds the Globe, and framde the fyckle Spheare.
- 1911, Katharine Harris Bradley as Michael Field, Accuser, p. 158:
  The Muéddin: God is great, there is no God but God.
- 1960 April 25, advertisement in Life, p. 125:
  Perhaps this... must involve a relationship with a God of truth—and of love, of mercy, of justice.
- 2009, Nick Cave, The Death of Bunny Munro, page 68:
  Whoever said that there isn't a God is full of shit!

Translations

an omnipotent being

Afrikaans: God
Arabic: إِلٰه (ar) (ʔilāh)
Aramaic:
Hebrew: אלהא m (’Alāhā’)

Syriac: ܐܠܗܐ m (’Alāhā’)
Armenian: աստված (hy) (astvac)
Asturian: Dios (ast) m
Bulgarian: Бог (bg) m (Bog)
Catalan: Déu (ca) m
Chickasaw: Chihoowa
Chinese:
Mandarin: 天主 (zh) (tiānzhu), 上帝 (zh) (shàngdì)
Coptic: ⲑⲉⲟⲩ m (theou)
Czech: bůh (cs) m
Danish: Gud (da)
Dutch: god (nl), God (nl) m
Esperanto: Dio (eo)
Finnish: jumala (fi), Jumala (fi)
French: Dieu (fr) m
Galician: Deus (gl) m
Ge'ez: እግዚአብሔር (ʾƎgziʾäbəḥer)
Georgian: ღმერთი (ka) (ɣmerti)
German: Gott (de) m
Greek: Θεός (el) m (Theós)
Hindi: ईश्वर (hi) m (īśvar), परमेश्वर (hi) m (parmeśvar), भगवान (hi) m (bhagvān), परमात्मा (hi) m (parmātmā), देवता (hi) m (devtā), दैवता m (daivtā), ख़ुदा (hi) m (xudā), खुदा (hi) m (khudā), अल्लाह (hi) m (allāh), इलाही (hi) m (ilāhī), रब (hi) m (rab), अकाल (hi) m (akāl), वाहेगुरु m (vāheguru), राम (hi) m (rām), ऊँकार m (ū̃kār), करतार (hi) m (kartār), सिरजनहार (hi) m (sirjanhār), साहिब (hi) m (sāhib), साहब (hi) m (sāhab)
Indonesian: Allah (id), Tuhan (id)
Interlingua: Deo
Italian: Dio (it) m
Jarai: Ama Adai, Ơi Adai
Khiamniungan Naga: Kōuh-ō
Kikuyu: Ngai
Korean: 신(神) (ko) (sin)
Lao: ພະເຈົ້າ (pha chao)
Latin: Deus (la) m
Lithuanian: Dievas (lt) m
Luhya: Were
Luo: Nyasaye
Macedonian: бог m (bog)
Maguindanao: Allah, Alatala
Malay: Allah (ms), Tuhan (ms)
Middle Persian: [script needed] (yẕdt' /⁠yazd⁠/)
Old Prussian: Deiwas m
Persian: خدا (fa) (xodâ)
Plautdietsch: Gott (nds) m
Polish: Bóg (pl) m
Portuguese: Deus (pt) m
Romanian: Dumnezeu (ro) m, dumnezeu (ro) m
Russian: бог (ru) m (box)
Scots: god
Scottish Gaelic: Dia (gd) m
Serbo-Croatian: božanstvo (sh) n
Swahili: Mungu
Swedish: Gud (sv) m
Tagalog: Diyos (tl), Bathala
Tundra Nenets: нумʼ (num)
Turkish: Allah (tr), Tanrı (tr)
Urdu: خدا (ur) (xudā)
Zazaki: Homa (diq) c, Alla c

Interjection

God

Short for oh God: expressing annoyance or frustration.
God, is this because of the "I don't love you anymore" T-shirt I bought? It was a joke!
- 2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel (Priority: Earth):
  Admiral Anderson: God... feels like years since I just sat down.

References

“god, n. and int.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Anagrams

Dog, OGD, DOG, 'dog, ODG, dog