Translingual

Abbreviation

Ala

1. (biochemistry) IUPAC 3-letter abbreviation of alanine

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.la/

Proper noun

Ala f

1. diminutive of Alicja
2. diminutive of Alina

Declension

Turkish

Proper noun

Ala

1. A male given name
2. A female given name

English

Noun

ala ‎(plural alae or alæ)

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

References

• ala on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “ala” in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000.
• “ala” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.

Etymology 2

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

Preposition

ala

1. (colloquial) Alternative form of a la
   • 2006, WorstPreviews.com, Film review:

     The film is told in reverse ala Memento.

   • 2008, Film Threat, Film review:

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

   • 2011, The Washington Post’s blog The Fix, Politics article:

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

   • 2011, The Huffington Post, Business article:

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

References

• “ala” examples at Wordnik

Anagrams

• aal , AAL

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin āla ‎(“wing”).

Noun

ala f ‎(plural ales)

1. wing
2. fin

Synonyms

• (fin): aleta

Basque

Conjunction

ala

1. or (exclusive)

Related terms

• edo

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɫə/

Etymology

From Old Provençal, from Latin āla ‎(“wing”).

Noun

ala f ‎(plural ales)

1. wing

Chickasaw

Verb

ala

1. To be born

Synonyms

• atta

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *ala.

Noun

ala ‎(genitive ala, partitive ala)

1. area, region
2. territory
3. (in working life, in sciences) field
4. (business) branch

Declension

Faroese

Etymology

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

Verb

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

Conjugation

Finnish

(index al)

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *ala.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑlɑ/
• Hyphenation: a‧la
• Rhymes: -ɑlɑ

Noun

ala

1. area of work or study
2. (in working life, in sciences) field
3. branch or sector (of business, studies, etc.)

Declension

Compounds

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑlɑˣ/
• Hyphenation: a‧la

Verb

ala

1. Indicative present connegative form of alkaa.
2. Second-person singular imperative present form of alkaa.
3. Second-person singular imperative present connegative form of alkaa.

Galician

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin āla. Compare the inherited á.

Noun

ala f ‎(plural alas)

1. wing

Synonyms

• á

Hawaiian

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *sala, from Proto-Oceanic *salan, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *zalan, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *zalan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *zalan, from Proto-Austronesian *zalan.

Noun

ala

1. way

Hoyahoya

Noun

ala

1. grandfather

Reference

• Philip Carr, Hoyahoya organised phonology data (2006)

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aːla/
  • Rhymes: -aːla

Etymology 1

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

Verb

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

1. (with accusative) to bear, to give birth to
2. (with accusative) to foster
3. (with accusative) to feed, to nourish

Conjugation

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Noun

ala

1. indefinite genitive plural of alur

Italian

Etymology

From Latin āla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈala]

Noun

ala f ‎(plural ali, poetic ale)

1. wing

Synonyms

• alia (archaic, slang)

Related terms

Verb

ala

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

Jarai

Etymology

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

Noun

(classifier drơi) ala

1. snake

Kurdish

ala

Noun

ala f

1. flag (piece of cloth)

Ladin

Contraction

ala

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

Latin

Etymology

For earlier *axla, from axis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱs- ‎(“axis”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈaː.la/, [ˈaː.ɫa]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.la/, [ˈaː.la]

Noun

āla f ‎(genitive ālae); first declension

1. wing (as of a bird)
2. armpit
3. the hollow where a limb joins the trunk of an animal or tree
4. (architecture) wings off the main room, side porches, waiting areas
5. (military) wing of an army, cavalry force (usually deployed on an army's flank)
6. vocative singular of āla

ālā f

1. ablative singular of āla

Inflection

First declension.

Derived terms

• ālātus
• ālar
• ālārius
• ālāte
• axilla

Descendants

References

• 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 Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ALA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 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

Latvian

Ala (1)

Trušu ala (2)

Etymology

The usual theory considers ala to be a borrowing from Middle Low German hol ‎(“depth, hole, cave”), or maybe from the same form in Middle Dutch or German Low German (East Frisian); cf. German Höhle ‎(“cave”); note, however, that this Germanic word is masculine, from which a feminine a-stem borrowing into Latvian would seem unlikely.

A different view suggests that ala could also reflex an old Proto-Indo-European stem *h₁el-, *ol-, *al- “to flow, to drain” with various Baltic reflexes: dialectal Latvian alots, alogs (standarad avots) “(water) source,” alksna, aluksna “miry, swampy place” (cf. placenames 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]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ala]

Noun

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)

Declension

Derived terms

• alu cilvēks

See also

• speleoloģija

References

1. ↑ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “ala”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, ISBN 9984-700-12-7

Malay

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ə

Preposition

ala

1. like
2. according to
3. on

Northern Sami

Etymology

Genitive of Proto-Samic *ëlë.

Adverb

ala

1. over
2. on, on top

Derived terms

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

Postposition

ala

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

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *ēlō. Cognates include Old English æl and Old Norse alr.

Noun

āla f

1. awl

Descendants

• German: Ahle

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *alaną ‎(“to nourish, grow”), from Proto-Indo-European *al- ‎(“to grow”).

Verb

ala

1. to produce
2. to testify
3. to breed
4. to nourish

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

References

• 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 Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ALA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 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

Old Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈa.la]

Etymology 1

From Latin āla.

Noun

ala f (plural alas)

1. wing (limb)
   • c1200: Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 67v. a.

     la ṕmera ſemeiaua leon e auie alas de aguila ueye q́ meſauan ſus alas e cayen atierra e ſobre ſos piedes como oḿe se leuátaua

     The first was like a lion, and it had the wings of an eagle. I saw its wings torn off and fall to the ground so that it stood on its feet like a man.

Descendants

• Ladino: ala (Latin spelling)
• Spanish: ala

Etymology 2

A contraction of a ‎(“to, toward, in, at”) + la ‎(“the”); the feminine singular definite article.

Contraction

ala ‎(plural alas)

1. (followed by a singular feminine noun) to the, toward the
   • c1200: Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 2v. b.

     Loth ouo miedo de ſeer en segor esubio alas mótánas có sus. ij. fijas. estido é una cueua có sus. ij. fijas. edixo la maior ala menor. nŕo padre es uyeio eno nos podremos caſar. com es derecho.

     Loth was afriad to stay in Zoar, so he moved to the mountains with his two daughters. There he lived in a cave with his two daughters; then older [daughter] said to the younger: "Our father is old, and [here] we cannot marry as is the custom."

2. (followed by a singular feminine noun) in the, at the
   • c1200: Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 2v. a.

     eſtos angeles có q́ fablo abraã. vinieron a ſodoma e loth ſedia ala puerta de la cibdat. e violos & leuátos cótra ellõ.

     These angels to whom Abraham spoke came to Sodom, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. And he saw them and got up to meet them.

Related terms

• al

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin āla. Compare the inherited doublet á.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈa.lɐ/
• Hyphenation: a‧la

Noun

ala f (plural alas)

1. section, wing

Rade

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /alaa/ [ʔəlaa]]

Noun

ala

1. snake

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Puter) ela

Etymology

From Latin āla.

Noun

ala f (plural alas)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader) wing

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

ala f ‎(Cyrillic spelling ала)

1. dragon
2. type of mythical creature similar to dragon

Synonyms

• hala

Related terms

• aždaha
• zmaj

Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish ala (compare Ladino ala), from Latin āla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.la/, [ˈa.la]
• Homophone: hala

Noun

ala f ‎(plural alas)

1. wing (of bird)
2. wing (of aircraft)
3. brim (of hat)
4. (military) flank (of a formation)
5. (sports) wing (part of the field)
6. (sports) winger

Usage notes

• The feminine noun ala is like other feminine nouns starting with a stressed a sound in that it takes the definite article el (normally reserved for masculine nouns) in the singular when there is no intervening adjective:

el ala

• However, if an adjective intervenes between the article and the noun, the article reverts to la.

Related terms

• alado
• alear
• aleta

Derived terms

• ahuecar el ala
• ala delta
• ala del trinquete
• bajo el ala de
• dar alas
• del ala
• las alas de la fantasía
• tener alas en los pies
• tomar alas

Sranan Tongo

Pronoun

ala

1. everything

Swahili

Etymology

From Arabic آلَة ‎(ʾāla, “instrument, tool”).

Noun

ala (n class, plural ala)

1. tool

Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ'ɫɑ/
• Hyphenation: a‧la

Adjective

ala ‎(comparative daha ala, superlative en ala)

1. multicolored
2. Short for alabalık ‎(“trout”).

Veps

Verb

ala

1. second-person singular imperative of ei