in english, allah specifically refers to the islamic conception of god, but in arabic, if i understand this right, it's just a word meaning "god"
so how, if at all, do you differentiate in arabic between the god of islam and the gods of other religions? i tried looking this up and got a bunch of weird theology discourse from christian university websites
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also i wonder if arabic-speaking jews censor the word like how english-speaking jews sometimes write g-d. (apparently that's a relatively recent custom? but idk how accurate that is)
@typhlosion
The name of G-d is in Hebrew, so typing it with the - is not required in English. People want to be careful though, the they say the equivalent of "Lord" when reading torah and often "the name" (hashem) more conversationally or in printed publications they want to be able to recycle normally.