اللهمّ

اللهمّ:

(اللهمّ) :

تستعمل على ثلاثة أنحاء الأول النداء المحض وهو ظاهر، الثاني الإيذان بندرة المستثنى كما تقول: اللهم إلا أن يكون كذا، الثالث الدلالة على تيقن المجيب

للجواب المقترن به. وقد وقع في حديث البخاري اللهمّ نعم (1) . وذكر ذلك شراحه وليس هذا الاستعمال بمولد.

(1) ذكره ابن ماجه. يراجع، ابن ماجه: سنن ابن ماجه، ج 1ص 449، كتاب إقامة الصلاة والسنة فيها، باب ما جاء في فرض الصلوات الخمس والمحافظة عليها.

اَللّٰهُمَّ (intj)

Etymology: Extended form of الله (allāh). The origin of the ـُمَّ (-umma) is unknown. Most likely, it is a fossilized remnant of a vocative particle—akin to the very common vocative particle يا (yā)—which would have been productive in earlier Arabic. While a vocative suffix of ـُمَّ (-umma) is not attested in any other extant Arabic word, such a suffix did exist in other ancient Semitic languages such as Ugaritic and carried a vocative meaning (both the equivalents of Arabic يا (yā) and ـُمَّ (-umma) existed as ways to form the vocative in Ugaritic).
Other theories include a connection with مَا (mā), or a borrowing from Hebrew אלוהים (elohim), where the final -m is a majestic plural ending. The form is first attested in the Quran (3:26, 5:114, 8:32, 10:10, 39:46). Classical Arabic philologists in the medieval period often also struggled to determine the word’s etymology, with some, including Sibawayh, suggesting it came from a fusion of الله أُمَّـ (allāh ʔumma-), shortened from يَا أَللّٰهُ أُمَّنَا بِخَيْرٍ (yā ʔallāhu ʔummanā biḵayrin, “O God, lead us in goodness”).

Meaning: O God; vocative form of الله (allāh) used in invocations, oaths, etc.

From Wiktionary: اللهم, by Wiktionary contributors, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.