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Alla

Alla

See also: alla, állá, ALLA, álla, allá, and ällä

English

Proper noun

Alla

  1. A transliteration of the Russian female given name А́лла ‎(Álla).

Latvian

Etymology

First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1888. Partly from Russian Алла ‎(Alla), a name of uncertain origin, or shortened from Aleksandra.

Proper noun

Alla f

  1. A female given name of Latvian speakers.
  2. A transliteration of the Russian female given name Алла ‎(Alla).

References

  • Klāvs Siliņš: Latviešu personvārdu vārdnīca. Riga "Zinātne" 1990, ISBN 5-7966-0278-0
  • Population Register of Latvia: Alla was the only given name of 5718 persons in Latvia on May 21st 2010, including Russian speakers.

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic اَللّٰه ‎(allāh).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɐlːɐ/

Noun

Alla

  1. God

alla

alla

See also: Alla, ALLA, álla, allá, ällä, állá, and alla-

Estonian

Adverb

alla

  1. down, to below
    Ma kukkusin alla.
    I fell down.

Postposition

alla

  1. down, to below, to under (Governs the genitive)
    Mine laua alla!
    Go under the table!

Preposition

alla

  1. below (Governs the genitive)
    See on kasvult alla keskmise.
    It is below average growth.

Finnish

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *alla (compare Estonian all), from older *alna, an archaic locative formed with Proto-Uralic *-na (compare the essive suffix -na) of ala-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɑlːɑ/
  • Rhymes: -ɑlːɑ
  • Hyphenation: al‧la

Adverb

alla

  1. beneath, underneath, below

Postposition

alla ‎(+ genitive)

  1. (static) under, underneath.
    Pallo on pöydän alla.‎
    The ball is under the table.

Declension

Declension of alla
noun case singular plural adverbial
form		 singular plural
nominative ala- – superessive alhaalla –
genitive – – delative alhaalta –
partitive – – sublative alhaalle –
accusative – – lative alas –
inessive – – temporal – –
elative – – causative – –
illative – – multiplicative – –
adessive alla – distributive – –
ablative alta – temp. dist. – –
allative alle – prolative ali
alitse 		–
essive – – situative allekkain
(alakkain)		 –
translative – – oppositive alatusten –
instructive – –
abessive – –
comitative – –

Antonyms

Related terms

French

Verb

alla

  1. third-person singular past historic of aller

Gothic

Romanization

alla

  1. Romanization of 𐌰𐌻𐌻𐌰

Icelandic

Pronoun

alla

  1. feminine accusative singular of allur
  2. masculine accusative singular of allur

Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈal̪ˠə/

Etymology 1

Possibly from Old Irish allguth m ‎(“great noise, shout”), from guth m ‎(“voice, sound”).

Noun

alla m ‎(genitive singular alla)

  1. shout
Declension
Alternative forms

Etymology 2

Adjective

alla

  1. Alternative form of allta ‎(“wild”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
alla n-alla halla t-alla
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  • "alla" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • “allguth” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Italian

Etymology

Contraction of a + la (feminine singular definite article).

Contraction

alla

  1. at the, to the (+ a feminine noun in singular)

Maltese

Noun

alla m ‎(plural allat)

  1. god

Northern Sami

Adjective

alla

  1. attributive form of allat

Nyunga

Preposition

alla

  1. Alternative spelling of alle
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Old Dutch

Alternative forms

Adjective

alla

  1. all; plural of al

Swedish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈalˌa/

Pronoun

alla

  1. everyone
    Alla fick en kopp kaffe.‎
    Everyone got a cup of coffee
  2. all (about countable nouns)
    Har du plockat upp alla leksakerna från golvet?‎
    Have you picked up all the toys from the floor?

Synonyms

See also

  • all and allt are the words to use about mass nouns (of common and neuter gender, respectively).

Turkish

Etymology

al +‎ la (from al and ile)

Adverb

alla

  1. with the red

Welsh

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈaɬa/

Verb

alla

  1. Soft mutation of galla.

Etymology

Derived from all ‎(“down, below”).

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