Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—A

Alla

or Allah (that is, al-ilah). “The adorable.” The Arabic name of the Supreme Being.

“The city won for Allah from the Giaour.” Byron: Childe Harold, ii, 77.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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