god

/gɒd/ noun

Translation

God › in Jewish, Christian, or Muslim belief, the spirit who created the universe and everything in it, and who rules over it

Allah, Rab, İlah

He prayed to God to make his mother well again.726

› [C] a spirit, especially a male one, that people pray to and who has control over parts of the world or nature

tanrı

the ancient Greek gods and goddesses726

(Oh) (my) God! informal › used to emphasize how surprised, angry, shocked, etc you are

'Aman Allah'ım!', 'Aman Yarabbi!'

Oh my God! The car has been stolen.12492414

thank God informal › something you say when you are happy because something bad did not happen

'Allah'a şükür', 'Şükürler olsun ki!'

Thank God nobody was hurt in the accident.981

(Definition of god noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

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