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

• 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 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Swahili

Pronunciation

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Interjection

aleluya

1. alternative form of alleluia (“hallelujah”)

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish aleluya, from Latin allēlūia, from Ancient Greek ἀλληλούϊα (allēloúïa), from Hebrew הַלְּלוּיָהּ (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, 2018
• Cuadrado Muñiz, Adolfo (1972), Hispanismos en el tagalo: diccionario de vocablos de origen español vigentes en esta lengua filipina, Madrid: Oficina de Educación Iberoamericana, page 23
• aleluya on the Tagalog Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^tl