aleluya

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish aleluya, from Latin aleluia, from Hebrew הַלְלוּיָהּ (hal'luyáh).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: a‧le‧lu‧ya
• IPA^(key): /ʔaleˈluja/ [ʔɐ.l̪eˈl̪u.jɐ]

Noun

aleluya

1. hallelujah

Interjection

aleluya

1. hallelujah!

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin alleluia, from Hebrew הַלְלוּיָהּ.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /aleˈluʝa/ [a.leˈlu.ʝa]

• IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /aleˈluʝa/ [a.leˈlu.ʝa]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /aleˈluʃa/ [a.leˈlu.ʃa]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /aleˈluʒa/ [a.leˈlu.ʒa]

• Rhymes: -uʝa
• Syllabification: a‧le‧lu‧ya

Interjection

aleluya

1. hallelujah

Noun

aleluya m or f same meaning (plural aleluyas)

1. (cry of) hallelujah

Descendants

• → Cebuano: aleluya
• → Tagalog: aleluya

Further reading

• “aleluya”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish aleluya, from Latin aleluia, from Hebrew הַלְלוּיָהּ (hal'luyáh).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔaleˈluja/ [ʔɐ.lɛˈluː.jɐ]
• Rhymes: -uja
• Syllabification: a‧le‧lu‧ya

Noun

aleluya (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎᜒᜎᜓᜌ)

1. hallelujah; alleluia

Interjection

aleluya! (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎᜒᜎᜓᜌ)

1. hallelujah!; alleluia!

Further reading

• “aleluya”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• aleluya on the Tagalog Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^tl