Arabic-L:LING:khoda usage query

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Date:  03 Dec 2001
From: dwilmsen <dwilmsen at aucegypt.edu>
Subject: khoda usage query

In the recent discussion about the use of the word "Allah" in reference to the
divinity amongst Arab Christians, Muslims, and Jews, it was noted that Iranian
Muslims use, along with the borrowed Arabic term, the native Persian word
/xodaa/.

Do the religious minorities in Iran - Jews, Christians, Baha'is, and
Zoroastrians - also use this term, aside from formulaic usage such as "khoda
hafez i shomaa"?

Do they all also use the borrowed Arabic term (as do the Baha'is)?


David Wilmsen

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