Iah
/ˈiː.ɑː/noun
Iah is an Egyptological name for the ancient Egyptian moon god, also written Aah or Yah.
Did you know?Iah was associated with the lunar cycle and was sometimes linked with Thoth and Khonsu, showing how Egyptian religion treated the moon as a living divine power.
Etymological Timeline
Middle Kingdom, c. 2055–1650 BCE
Ancient Egyptian
Jꜥḥ
“The name of an Egyptian lunar deity, conventionally transliterated by Egyptologists as Iah or Aah.”
New Kingdom, c. 1550–1070 BCE
Ancient Egyptian
Jꜥḥ
“Iah appears within Egyptian religious tradition as a moon god associated with lunar timekeeping and cycles.”
Ptolemaic Period, 305–30 BCE
Egyptian religion
Aah
“Aah, a variant scholarly rendering of the deity’s name, continued in Egyptological records of lunar worship.”
19th Century
Egyptology
Iah
“European Egyptologists adopted Iah as a conventional Latin-alphabet transliteration of the Egyptian divine name.”
Modern English
English
Iah
“A proper-name form used in English-language writing about the ancient Egyptian moon god.”