ala

 

 

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Originated 1730–40, borrowed from Latin āla (“wing”). Doublet of aisle.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈeɪ.lə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪlə

ala (plural alae or alæ)

1. (anatomy) A wing or winglike anatomic process or part, especially of bone.
2. (botany) The flattened border of some stems, fruits, and seeds, or one of the two side petals of certain flowers in the pea family.
3. (architecture) In ancient Rome, a small room opening into a larger room or courtyard.

Borrowed from French à la, by way of its English derivation a la.

ala

1. (colloquial) Alternative form of a la.
   • 2006, WorstPreviews.com‎^[7], archived from the original on 7 June 2020:

     The film is told in reverse ala Memento.

   • 2008 November 14, admin, “Quantum of Solace”, in Film Threat‎^[8]:

     […] interactive plasma screens with flashing digits and what not, ala “Minority Report,” […]

   • 2011 March 11, Aaron Blake, Chris Cillizza, “Palin: The GOP's Pelosi?”, in The Fix‎^[9], archived from the original on 24 June 2011:

     […] we might be getting to the point where Palin is a bona fide liability—ala Pelosi—for the GOP.

   • 2011 April 11, Charles Gasparino, “Duncan Niederauer Calling the Shots for NYSE Is Bad News for Shareholders”, in HuffPost‎^[10]:

     […] the NYSE didn't implode ala Merrill […]

• “ala”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “ala”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
• “ala”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• “ala” examples at Wordnik

• AAL, Aal, aal

 

Related to Saho aluula.

• IPA^(key): /ˈala/ [ˈʔʌlʌ]
• Hyphenation: a‧la

ála m (plural alluwwá f or alwá f)

1. animal, wild animal
2. European, white person (clarification of this definition is needed)

 

Related to Somali hal.

• IPA^(key): /aˈla/ [ʔʌˈlʌ]
• Hyphenation: a‧la

alá f (masculine rakúb, plural aloolí f)

1. female camel

• gaaláytu (“camel”)

• nargó (“baby female camel”)
• addó (“juvenile female camel”)
• erartó (“old female camel”)

• E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN, page 37
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2004) Parlons Afar: Langue et Culture, L'Hammartan, →ISBN, page 24
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[11], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

From Latin āla (“wing”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈala/, [ˈa.la]

ala f (plural ales)

1. wing
2. fin

   Synonym: aleta

• IPA^(key): /ɑˈɫɑ/

• Audio (Baku):

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From Proto-Turkic *āla.^[1]

ala (comparative daha ala, superlative ən ala)

1. variegated
2. (poetic) blue (of eyes)

   ala gözlər ― blue eyes

• alagöz
• alagözlü

ala (definite accusative alanı, plural alalar)

1. vitiligo (the patchy loss of skin pigmentation.)

Likely from ay bala.

ala

1. dude

   Ala, nə eləyirsən?! ― Dude, what are you doing?!

• ədə!
• az!

ala

1. Romanization of ᬳᬮ

ala

1. iroko (Milicia excelsa, syn. Chlorophora excelsa^[1][2])

Presumably from Proto-Basque *aLa.^[1]

• Audio:

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• IPA^(key): /ala/ [a.la]
• Rhymes: -ala
• Hyphenation: a‧la

ala

1. or (exclusive)

The conjunction ala is an exclusive or, while edo is an inclusive or. For instance, while Sagarrak edo udareak nahi al dituzu? and Sagarrak ala udareak nahi dituzu? are both correct, the former asks in a yes or no question if you want apples, pears, apples and pears, or nothing; while the latter asks which one you want, the apples, or the pears.

From Latin āla (“wing”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈa.lə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈa.la]

• Audio:

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• Homophone: hala

ala f (plural ales)

1. wing (appendage that enables flight)

• alat
• aleta
• aletejar

• alar

• “ala” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “ala”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “ala” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “ala” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• IPA^(key): /aˈla/

ala (active, short verb)

1. (intransitive) to arrive, to come (I)
2. (intransitive) to be born (I)

   Synonym: atta

3. (intransitive) to be here, to get here (I)
4. (transitive) to come to, to arrive at (I;3)

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From Proto-Finnic *ala.

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ala (genitive ala, partitive ala)

1. area, territory, region

   Sellelt alalt on leitud palju rauda. ― A lot of iron has been found in this area.

2. (in working life, in sciences) field

   Ainuke ala, mis mind huvitab, on ajalugu. ― The only field which interests me is history.

3. (business) branch

• “ala”, in [PSV] Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastik [Dictionary of Estonian Basic Vocabulary] (in Estonian) (online version, not updated), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2014
• “ala”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
• “ala”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
• ala in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

From Old Norse ala, from Proto-Germanic *alaną (“to nourish, grow”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- (“to grow”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛaːla/
• Rhymes: -ɛaːla
• Homophones: æla, ælað

ala (third person singular past indicative ól, third person plural past indicative ólu, supine alið)

1. (kvæði) to give birth to
2. to foster
3. to nourish
4. to breed

From Proto-Finnic *ala; see ala- for more. Already in Finnic, this stem, originally meaning "lower, under" was repurposed as a noun meaning "underside, lower side", from which the other senses have developed.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑlɑ/, [ˈɑ̝lɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑlɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): ala

ala

1. area, field, domain (one's field of expertise or activity)
2. field, discipline (specific branch of knowledge, learning, or practice; e.g. in work or sciences)
3. industry, sector, branch (business, studies, etc.)
4. (mathematics) area

   Synonym: pinta-ala

5. (archaic) underside

• “ala”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[12] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑlɑˣ/, [ˈɑ̝lɑ̝(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -ɑlɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): ala

ala

1. inflection of alkaa:
   1. present active indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular present imperative
   3. second-person singular present active imperative connegative

ala (Valdôtain, Piemontais)

1. Alternative form of âla (“wing”) documented in the following location(s): Aosta, Arnad, Ayas, Aymavilles, Brusson, Challand-St-Anselme, Challand-St-Victor, Champorcher, Charvensod, Cogne, Courmayeur, Doues, Fontainemore, La Thuile, Montjovet, Morgex, Nus, Quart, St-Oyen, St-Rhémy-en-Bosses, St-Vincent, Valgrisenche, Valpelline; Giaglione

Learned borrowing from Latin āla. Compare the inherited á.

ala f (plural alas)

1. wing

   Synonym: á

• “ala”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024

Inherited from Classical Latin āla, from earlier *axla, from axis, from Proto-Italic *aksis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱs- (“axis”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈala/^[1]

ala f (plural ali)

1. wing

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.la/, [ˈɐ.lə]

From Proto-Polynesian *hala, from Proto-Oceanic *salan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *zalan, from Proto-Austronesian *zalan.

ala

1. way, path, road

   ala hoʻi ʻole mai

   a pathway with no return

ala

1. to waken
2. (stative) awake
3. to arise, rise up

   ala kūʻē

   to rise in revolt

• (rise): See Thesaurus:ala

• hoʻāla (“to awaken (sb.), incite, stir up”)
• hoʻoala (“to awaken (sb.)”)

ala

1. (rare) alternative form of ale (“to swallow”)

   Synonyms: alaō, alapoho

   Ua ala ka iʻa i ka makau.

   The fish swallows the hook whole.

ala

1. (demonstrative) variant of kēlā: that

kēlā and lā are more frequently used.

• Pukui, Mary Kawena, Elbert, Samuel H. (1986) “ala”, in Hawaiian Dictionary, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press
• ala in Combined Hawaiian Dictionary, at trussel2.com.

ala

1. grandfather

• Philip Carr, Hoyahoya organised phonology data (2006)

• IPA^(key): /ˈaːla/
• Rhymes: -aːla

From Old Norse ala, from Proto-Germanic *alaną (“to nourish, grow”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- (“to grow”).

ala (strong verb, third-person singular past indicative ól, third-person plural past indicative ólu, supine alið)

1. to bear, give birth to [with accusative]
2. to foster [with accusative]
3. to feed, nourish [with accusative]

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

ala

1. indefinite genitive plural of alur

 

Compare with Ebira àra, probably from Idoma ala, displaced native àgwùtọ̀

• IPA^(key): /á.lá/

álá

1. sheep

   Synonym: (obsolete) àgwùtọ̀

2. (idiomatic, offensive) idiot, stupid person

   Synonyms: àgwùtọ̀, álá onẹ̀

• Ígáláà

• ànị̀ (Onicha)

From Proto-Igboid *ɛ́-làCḭ. Cognate with Ekpeye ɛ́lɛ̀, Ogbah àlɪ̀, Ezaa àlɪ̀, Izi àlɪ̀, Ukwuani-Aboh-Ndoni ànɪ̀, Ika àlɪ̀.^[1] Compare Proto-Yoruboid *á-lɛ̀, (Yoruba alẹ̀).

ala

1. earth, land, soil, ground.

• ala eze (“kingdom”)
• ala mmụọ (“spirit world”)
• Ọmenala

From Proto-Igboid [Term?]. Cognate with Ogbah ɛ́rã́, Ezaa ɛ́rá, Izi ɛ́rá, Ukwuani-Aboh-Ndoni ɛ́lá, Ika ɛ́rã́.^[1] Possibly cognate with Yoruba wàrà.

ala

1. breast
2. milk

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈala/ [ˈa.la]
• Rhymes: -ala
• Syllabification: a‧la

From French à la, perhaps through English la.

ala

1. (colloquial) a la, in the style or manner of.

   Synonyms: khas, gaya

From Arabic عَلَى (ʕalā).

ala

1. on, over.

   Synonyms: atas, pada, kepada, akan

ala

1. (law) land, with the owner or descendants still have the main rights in that land.

From Arabic أَعْلَى (ʔaʕlā).

ala

1. (obsolete) high.

   Synonym: tinggi

• “ala” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Inherited from Middle Irish athlad.

• IPA^(key): /ˈalˠə/

ala

1. Only used in phrases; see Derived terms below

• ar ala na huaire (“on the spur of the moment; within a second”)
• gach ala (“every now and then”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ala”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

From Latin āla.

ala f

1. wing

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.la/
• Rhymes: -ala
• Hyphenation: à‧la

From Latin āla.

ala f (plural ali or (archaic or poetic) ale)

1. wing

   Synonym: alia (archaic; slang)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

ala

1. inflection of alare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *hulaR, from Proto-Austronesian *SulaR.

ala (classifier drơi)

1. snake

ala

1. Romanization of ꦲꦭ

• la (text messaging)

From Proto-Central Philippine *wadaq, from Proto-Philippine *wada (“to be, exist”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wada.

• IPA^(key): /əˈlaʔ/ [əˈläʔ]
• Hyphenation: a‧la

alâ

1. nothing; no one; none; nonexistent

alâ

1. missing; absent; gone; lost

   Synonyms: liban, bating, lili

2. (euphemistic) dead

   Synonym: mete

From a +‎ la.

ala

1. at or to the (+ feminine singular noun)

For earlier *axla, from axis, from Proto-Italic *aksis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱs- (“axis”).^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈaː.la/, [ˈäːɫ̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.la/, [ˈäːlä]

āla f (genitive ālae); first declension

1. a wing (appendage of an animal's body that enables it to fly)
2. (anatomy) the armpit (the upper and under part of the arm, where it unites with the shoulder)
3. (of an animal) shoulder blade, axilla (the hollow where the foreleg is joined to the shoulder)
4. (of a plant) the hollow where a limb joins the trunk of a tree
5. (architecture) wings, side halls or porches, waiting areas, colonnades, side apartments (side rooms off the main room, the side apartments on the right and left of a court)
6. (military) a wing (portion of an army, cavalry force (usually) deployed on an army's flank)
7. (transferred) wings (the members of a group placed along the perimeter)
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.121:

     “[...] dum trepidant ālae, saltūsque indāgine cingunt, [...].”

     “[At the hunting party of Dido and Aeneas], while the beaters rush about, and encircle forest glades with net[s], [...].”
     (Understood here as the beaters, mounted or on foot, who flush the prey and drive it toward the hunters.)

First-declension noun.

• ala in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ala in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ala in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• ala in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ala in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

 

 ala on Latvian Wikipedia

 

 

The usual theory considers ala to be borrowed from Middle Low German hol (“depth, hole, cave”), from Old Saxon hol, or maybe from the same form in Middle Dutch or German Low German (East Frisian); cf. German Höhle (“cave”), all from Proto-West Germanic *hol.

A different view suggests that ala could also be a reflex of an old Proto-Indo-European stem *h₁el-, *ol-, *al- (“to flow, to drain”) with various Baltic reflexes: dialectal alots, alogs, standard avots (“(water) source”), alksna, aluksna (“miry, swampy place”) (cf. place names like Alūksne, Alūkstes), Lithuanian alė́ti (“to flow, to drip”). The original meaning of ala would thus have been “(water) source”, from which “place (e.g., cave, rift, pit) from which water springs,” and finally simply “cave,” possibly under the influence of the aforementioned Germanic words.^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ala]

• Audio:

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ala f (4th declension)

1. cave (space or cavity formed underground, especially between rocks, or in the face of a cliff or hillside)

   klinšu alas ― rock caves

   pazemes ala ― subterranean cave

   alu labirinti ― cave labyrinths

   alu cilvēks ― caveman

   alu zīmējumi ― cave drawings, paintings

   Abhāzijā atrodas ala, kuras labirinti ir vairāk nekā trīs kilometrus gari ― in Abkhazia there is a cave with labyrinths longer than three kilometers

2. burrow, hole, lair, den (the dwelling of some animals, in the form of a cavity with one or many exits)

   peles, lapsas alas ― mice, fox holes

   āpšu, trušu alas ― badger, rabbit holes, burrows

   rakt alu ― to dig a hole, burrow

   nekā sevišķa tur neredzēja, izņemot nelielu caurumu zemē... likās tā kā kurmja ala ― there was nothing special to see there, except a small whole on the ground... it seemed to be a molehill (lit. hole)

• alu cilvēks

• speleoloģija

ala

1. Latin spelling of ალა (ala)

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.la/, [ˈa.lə̥]

• Audio:

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *halas, from Proto-Austronesian *Salas. Cognate with Balinese ᬳᬮᬲ᭄ (alas), Javanese ꦲꦭꦱ꧀ (alas).

ala

1. forest

From Proto-Austronesian *alaq (“fetch; get; take”).

ala

1. without; freed from; removed from

• Rhymes: -ə

ala (Jawi spelling الا or على)

1. like
2. according to
3. on

• "ala" in Kamus Dewan, Fourth Edition, Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, →ISBN, 2005.
• “ala” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

ala f (plural alas)

1. wing
2. (nautical) sail

ala

1. mistake

• Heather and Don Mc Lean, North Wahgi (Yu We) Organised Phonology Data (2005), p. 2

Seemingly recently borrowed from Central Kurdish ئاڵا (alla), the origin is uncertain. Perhaps derived from al (“side”), or a reflection of Arabic علامة or Turkic al (“red”).

• IPA^(key): /ɑːˈlɑː/

ala m (Arabic spelling ئالا)

1. flag, banner, standard

Often times confused to be al instead of ala by Northern Kurdish speakers, because the word is feminine and the feminine Izafe marker is -a-.

• Chyet, Michael L. (2020) “ala”, in Ferhenga Birûskî: Kurmanji–English Dictionary (Language Series; 1), volume 1, London: Transnational Press, page 5

-ála

1. to refuse

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

From Proto-Samic *ëlëk.

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈala/

ala

1. over
2. on, on top

• alcces-, alcce-, allas- (locative stems of ieš (“self”))

ala

1. over
2. on, onto, on top of

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[13], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

From Old Norse ala, from Proto-Germanic *alaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂életi.

• ale (e infinitive)
• ålå (dialectal)

ala (present tense aler or el, past tense alte or ol, past participle alt or ale, present participle alande, imperative al)

1. to foster

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

ala

1. definite plural of al

• “ala” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Latin āla.

• IPA^(key): [alo̞]

• Audio:

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ala f (plural alas)