> allah akbar has 4 syllables

Sorry, it's Al-la-hu ak-bar, which has 5 syllables. (the u is a grammatical ending here)

Short vowels are normally not written in Arabic (or other Semitic scripts)

But you can see the small u (-"accent") ُ in this version:

اللّٰهُ أَكْبَر

see also الله_أكبر

IIRC is Allah just the Arabic version of Hebrew and Aramaic Elohim, etc. and used in by various Christian bibles in Asia and Mizrahi Jews

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
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In reply to Re^5: making the Vater Unser non-sectarian using Text::Template by LanX
in thread making the Vater Unser non-sectarian using Text::Template by Aldebaran

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