EL, El or el may refer to:

Religion

El (deity) (also Il, uga, 𐎛𐎍 ''ʾīlu''; phn, 𐤀𐤋 ''ʾīl''; he, אֵל ''ʾēl''; syr, ܐܺܝܠ ''ʾīyl''; ar, إيل or ; cognate to akk, 𒀭, ilu) is a Northwest Semitic word meaning "god" or " deity", or referring (as a prop ...

, a Semitic word for "God"

People

* EL (rapper) (born 1983), stage name of Elorm Adablah, a Ghanaian rapper and sound engineer * El DeBarge, music artist *

El Franco Lee El Franco Lee (January30, 1949January3, 2016) was an American politician who served as a Harris County commissioner from 1985 to his death in 2016. Before becoming a county commissioner, he served as a member of the Texas House of Representativ ...

(1949–2016), American politician * Ephrat Livni (born 1972), American street artist

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

* El, a character from the manga series ''Shugo Chara!'' by Peach-Pit * El, short for Eleven, a fictional character in the TV series '' Stranger Things'' * El, family name of Kal-El (Superman) and his father Jor-El in ''

Superman Superman is a superhero who appears in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character was created by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster, and debuted in the comic book '' Action Comics'' #1 ( cover-dated June 1938 and pu ...

'' *E.L. Faldt, character in the road comedy film '' Road Trip''

Literature

* ''Él'', 1926 autobiographical novel by Mercedes Pinto * ''Él'' (visual novel), a 2000 Japanese adult visual novel

Music

* Él Records, an independent record label from the UK founded by Mike Alway * ''Él'' (Lucero album), a 1982 album by Lucero * "Él", Spanish song by Rubén Blades from ''Caminando'' (album) * "Él" (Lucía song), the Spanish entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1982, performed by Lucía

Other media

* ''Él'' (film), a 1953 film by Luis Buñuel based on the 1926 novel

Science and technology

Computing

* .el, a computer file extension used for Emacs Lisp source code *

Enciclopedia Libre Universal en Español (English: Universal Free Encyclopedia in Spanish) is a Spanish-language wiki-based online encyclopedia, released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0. It uses the MediaWiki software. It started as a fork of the ...

, a spin-off project of the Spanish Wikipedia * Erase Line (ANSI), an ANSI X3.64 escape sequence * Unified Expression Language, a feature of the JavaServer Pages software technology

Other uses in science and technology

* El (crater), a crater on Ganymede *

Electroluminescence Electroluminescence (EL) is an optical and electrical phenomenon, in which a material emits light in response to the passage of an electric current or to a strong electric field. This is distinct from black body light emission resulting fro ...

** Electroluminescent display, a display made with electroluminescent material *

Electrum Electrum is a naturally occurring alloy of gold and silver, with trace amounts of copper and other metals. Its color ranges from pale to bright yellow, depending on the proportions of gold and silver. It has been produced artificially, and ...

(El), an alloy of gold and silver * Encephalitis lethargica, a neurological disease * Equilibrium level, the height in the atmosphere at which a rising parcel of air reaches surrounding air of the same temperature * NIST Engineering Laboratory, a NIST laboratory since 2010

Sport

* Eastern League (disambiguation), a Class AA League in Minor League Baseball * Euroleague Basketball, highest level tier and most important professional club basketball competition in Europe *

UEFA Europa League The UEFA Europa League (abbreviated as UEL, or sometimes, UEFA EL), formerly the UEFA Cup, is an annual football club competition organised since 1971 by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) for eligible European football clubs. ...

, formerly the UEFA Cup, a competition for eligible European football clubs

Transportation

* Acura EL, an automobile * EL, Air Nippon's IATA code * EL,

Ellinair Ellinair was a Greek airline headquartered in Thessaloniki operating scheduled and charter flights. History The new airline was established on 19 February 2013 and its first flight was operated in February 2014. The name Ellinair is a combinati ...

's IATA code * EL, Erie Lackawanna Railway's reporting mark * El, shortened name of elevated railway systems, such as the

Chicago "L" The Chicago "L" (short for "elevated") is the rapid transit system serving the city of Chicago and some of its surrounding suburbs in the U.S. state of Illinois. Operated by the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA), it is the fourth-largest rapid t ...

* El, one name of the elevated railway system on SEPTA, the Market-Frankford

Other uses

* The spelled-out version of the letter L in English * El (Cyrillic), a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet *

Al- ( ar, ٱلْـ), also Romanized as ''el-'', ''il-,'' and ''l-'' as pronounced in some varieties of Arabic, is the definite article in the Arabic language: a particle (''ḥarf'') whose function is to render the noun on which it is prefixed def ...

aka "El-" ( ar, ال, links=no), Arabic prefix meaning "the" (definite article in Arabic), used in many family names * Estée Lauder Companies, American cosmetics manufacturer * Party of the European Left, a political party *

Greece Greece,, or , romanized: ', officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the southern tip of the Balkans, and is located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Greece shares land borders wi ...

in (EU VAT identification EL) *

Greek language Greek ( el, label= Modern Greek, Ελληνικά, Elliniká, ; grc, Ἑλληνική, Hellēnikḗ) is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, southern Italy ( Calabria and Salento), souther ...

(ISO 639-1 language code EL) * El, the number eleven in the duodecimal system