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Etymological Dictionary of Arabic
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allāhumma الّهُمّا 
ID … • Sw – • BP 784 • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√ʔLH 
interj. 
God! – WehrCowan1979. 
From Hbr ʔᵆlōhîm ‘God’, properly a pl., but used as sg., of Hbr ʔᵆlōᵃh ‘god’, which is of course cognate with Ar ↗ʔilāh. 
▪ eC7 Q 3:26, 5:114, 8:32, 10:10, 39:46, in all places an invocatory name for God, used in contexts of absolute supplication, cf. e.g. 10:10 daʕwā-hum fī-hā subḥāna-ka ’ḷḷāhumma ‘their prayer in it [sc. Paradise] is “Glory to You, God!”’ 
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▪ Jeffery 1938: »The form of the word was a great puzzle to the early grammarians:1 the orthodox explanation being that it is a vocative form where the final m takes the place of an initial yā. The Kūfans took it as a contraction of yā ʔallāhu ʔāminnā bi-ḫayr (Bayḍ. on iii, 25), but their theory is ridiculed by Ibn Yaʕīš, i, 181. As a vocative it is said to be of the same class as halumma ‘come along’. al-Ḫafājī, 20, however, recognizes it as a foreign word. – It is possible, as Margoliouth notes (ERE, vi, 248), that it is the Hbr ʔᵆlōhîm which had become known to the Arabs through their contacts with Jewish tribes.2 «
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▪ Not directly from Ar aḷḷāhumma, but from the same source as the latter, is Engl Elohim (c. 1600), a name of God in the Bible. 
► allāhumma ʔillā, conj., unless, were it not that, except that, or at best (after a negative statement).
► allāhumma ʔiḏā, conj., at least if or when; if only.
► allāhumma naʕam, excl., by God, yes! most certainly! 
ʔLW/Y ألو/ي 
ID – • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 8Mar2023
√ʔLW/Y 
“root” 
▪ ʔLW/Y_1 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ ʔLW/Y_2 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ ʔLW/Y_3 ‘...’ ↗...

♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘shortcoming, to be remiss; oath, to swear; to shine; favour’. – ‘Favour’, however, could also, on the basis of meaning and structure, be connected with the root ↗ʔLL. 
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ʔMː (ʔMM) أمّ / أمم 
ID … • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√ʔMː (ʔMM) 
“root” 
▪ ʔMː (ʔMM)_1 ‘…’ ↗…
▪ ʔMː (ʔMM)_2 ‘…’ ↗…

♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): »This root denotes two primary inter-related concepts of [1] ‘mother, race, roots and group’ on the one hand, and on the other, [2] ‘front, main road, leader, example direction’.« 
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