Khuda

Khuda (Persian: خُدا, romanized: xudā, Classical Persian pronunciation [xu.ˈdaː]), or Khoda (xodâ, Iranian Persian pronunciation [xo.ˈdɒː]) is the Persian word for God. Originally, it was used as a noun in reference to Ahura Mazda (the name of the God in Zoroastrianism). Iranian languages, Turkic languages, and many Indo-Aryan languages employ the word. Today, it is a word that is largely used in the non-Arabic Islamic world for Allah; with wide usage from its native country Iran, along with Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh and Pakistan; and many Muslim-majority areas of India, parts of Europe under the Ottoman Empire (especially the Balkans, such as Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania and Kosovo), as well as Armenia, plus Southern and Southwestern Russia.

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