Why does God address everyone with an "O"
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Peace,
Throughout the Quran, one sees that God (and humans mentioned in the Quran) have the letter O attached before their names.
For example
God says
O Moses
O Abraham
O Noah
O Lot
O Mary
O MuhammedWhat does the letter O in Arabic translate to?
Thanks
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Peace be upon you,
I have seen that translated as 'YOU', for example
YOU, you who have faith,....
YOU Musa....
etc.
But I am not sure if that is right or wrong, that is just what I have witnessed. I "THINK" it may be right based on my overall understanidng that the message is directed to EACH AND EVERY ONE OF US.
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I'm currently translating the qur'?n to swedish, and I have chosen to exclude the word O!/y?! from the translation. Instead, it may in some languages sound very polite just adressing a person with his/her name.
"Y?" is just emphasizing this way of adressing someone by name, so that it (i.e. the name) is not confused with something else...like a subject form.
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Peace Mohamed, all,
Peace,
O in arabic translates as "YA' " like in "Ya' ayouha ellatheena a'manou"= "O
you who have faith".Ayyuha (ignorant 3964) or ya ayyuha (magicien 4349) can play the same role than "O"
allahumma is equivalent to O Allah/the God, we call the God for something"Ya/O" is an article for "nida/" ie for a call, it is used to call
mankind (221),
Adam (233),
sons of isra-eel (240),
people (254),
Moses(255),
those who believe (2104),
sons(2132, 1142),
Mary (337, 42-45),
AAeesa (355),
the people of thebook (364),
the messenger (567),
tribes of Jinn (612,
tribes of Jinn and humans (6130, 5533),
sons of Adam (727)
Salih (777)
Pharaon (7104)
son of my mother (7150)
prophet (864-65,70,73, 331,28,45,50,59, 6012, 651, 661,9)
Noohu (1132)
land (1144)
Hud (1153)
Abraham (1176)
Lot (1181)
Chua?b (1187)
father (124, 11)
fellow inmates (1239)
commanders (1243)
Governor (127
Iblis (1532)
Zul-Qarnayn (1886)
Zacharie(197)
Yahya(1912)
Samiri (2095)
fire (2169)
Messengers (2351)
ants (271
wives of the prophet (3332)
mountains, the birds (3410)
David (3826)
servants (3910,16)
hamanu (4036)
magician (4349)
Malik (4377)
Jewish (626)
cloaked (731)
blanketed (741)
soul (8927)
rejecters (1091) -
Peace be upon you Doctor,
I agree, it is an attention grabber, like saying "YOU THERE! PAY ATTENTION"
Or like someone in my neighborhood might say "YO!"
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Or like someone in my neighborhood might say "YO!"
Something like Snoop Dogg might say