Allah Al-Ilah?

There are those who think that Allah is a contraction of al-ilah (‘the god’). In Arabic ‘the god’ is الإله But when invoking Allah Muslims say Ya Allah (O Allah) or Allahumma, which is probably derived from the Hebrew elohim. When there is a noun with the article we find (ya) ayyuha preceding the definite noun. As in the Quranic invocation Ya ayyuha al-nabiyyu, ‘O prophet’. يَا أَيُّهَا النَّبِيُّ joined or as two words.

There is a tendency to see the article in words or names beginning with al-, as in the name الإسكندر Al-Iskandar (Alexander).

Muslims like to refer to the Syriac ܐܠܗܐ alaha, with one ‘l’. So is Allah a foreign word?

In the Hebrew Tanakh we find: יהוה אלהים Yahweh Elohim, which in English would be Yahweh/Jehovah God. But Israelites would also speak of him as Elohim and likely invoked him as Elohim. Similarly the Arabs would have likely known their imported deity as Hubal Allah but invoked it as Allah, just like the founder of Islam’s putative grandfather Abd al-Muttalib is depicted as doing. Guillaume--Life of Muhammad.pdf pp 67, 68

Ba’al, Hubal, and Allah – Answering Islam Blog

THE RELIGION OF ISLAM: THE REEMERGENCE OF BAAL WORSHIP – Answering Islam Blog

Constructions:

To Allah=لالله Li-Allah

To Lah=لله Li-Lah (Quran للّه)

To the Lah=للله Lil-Lah

The god=الإله Al-ilah

To the god=للإله Lil-ilah

The word of Allah/The word of the Lah=كلمة الله Kalimat Allah

The word of the god=كلمة الإله Kalimat al-ilah

The spirit of Allah/The spirit of the Lah=روح الله Ruh Allah

The spirit of the god=روح الإله Ruh al-ilah

In the name of Allah/In the name of the Lah=باسم الله Bi-ismi Allah

In the name of the god=باسم الإله Bi-ismi al-ilah

Note: ل li ‘to’ + ال al ‘the’ becomes لل lil.

It does seem likely that Arabs saw Allah as being ‘Al-Lah’, ‘The Lah’.