 <unk> of the name " Allāh " exist in other Semitic languages , including Hebrew and Aramaic . The corresponding Aramaic form is <unk> ( <unk> ) , but its <unk> state is <unk> ( <unk> ) . It is written as <unk> ( <unk> ) in Biblical Aramaic and <unk> ( <unk> ) in Syriac as used by the Assyrian Church , both meaning simply " God " . Biblical Hebrew mostly uses the plural ( but functional singular ) form Elohim ( <unk> ) , but more rarely it also uses the singular form <unk> ( <unk> ) . In the Sikh scripture of Guru <unk> <unk> , the term Allah ( Punjabi : <unk> , translit . <unk> ) is used 37 times . 
