ala

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

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.

• ala on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “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.

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

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 […]

• “ala” examples at Wordnik

• AAL, aal

From Latin āla (“wing”).

ala f (plural ales)

1. wing
2. fin

   Synonym: aleta

ala

1. or (exclusive)

• edo

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

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈa.lə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈa.la/
• Homophone: hala

ala f (plural ales)

1. wing (appendage that enables flight)

• “ala” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

ala

1. to be born

   Synonym: atta

From Proto-Finnic *ala.

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

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

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.

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

ala

1. area, field, domain (one's field of expertise or activity)
2. (in working life, in sciences) field, discipline
3. industry, sector, branch (business, studies, etc.)
4. (mathematics) area

   Synonym: pinta-ala

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑlɑˣ/, [ˈɑlɑ(ʔ)]
• Hyphenation: a‧la

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.

Borrowed from Latin āla. Compare the inherited á.

ala f (plural alas)

1. wing

   Synonym: á

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.

ala

1. way

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 *al- (“to grow”).

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

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

ala

1. indefinite genitive plural of alur

• IPA^(key): /ˈalˠə/

ala

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

• "ala" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

From Latin āla.

• IPA^(key): [ˈala]

ala f (plural ali, poetic ale)

1. wing

   Synonym: alia (archaic, slang)

ala

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

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

(classifier drơi) ala

1. snake

ala f

1. flag (piece of cloth)

a +‎ la

ala

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

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

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

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

First declension.

• 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

The usual theory considers ala to be borrowed 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”).

A different view suggests that ala could also 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]

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.la/, [ˈa.lə̥]

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ala

1. forest

• Rhymes: -ə

ala

1. like
2. according to
3. on

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

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

• Entry 24785 in Álgu database

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

āla f

1. awl

• German: Ahle

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

ala

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

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• 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

• IPA^(key): [ˈa.la]

From Latin āla.

ala f (plural alas)

1. wing (limb)
   • c. 1200, 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.

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

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

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.

• al

• hala (alternative spelling)

From Portuguese ala and Spanish ala.

ala

1. wing

Borrowed from Latin āla. Compare the inherited doublet á.

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

ala f (plural alas)

1. section, wing

From Proto-Chamic *ʔular, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *hulaʀ, from Proto-Austronesian *Sulaʀ

• IPA^(key): /alaa/, [ʔəlaa]

ala

1. snake

• ela (Puter)

From Latin āla.

ala f (plural alas)

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

àla (Cyrillic spelling а̀ла)

1. (used for emphasis, or as an intensifier) expression of awe, surprise, dismay, etc.

   Ala je bilo lijepo!

   It sure was nice!

   Ala lažeš!

   Oh, you're lying!

ala f (Cyrillic spelling ала)

1. dragon

   Synonym: hala

2. type of mythical creature similar to dragon

• IPA^(key): /ˈala/
• Homophone: hala

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

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

• 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, even one that begins with a stressed a sound such as alta or ancha, intervenes between the article and the noun, the article reverts to la.

ala

1. Alternative spelling of hala

• “ala” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

ala

1. everything

Borrowed from Arabic آلَة‎ (ʾāla, “instrument, tool”).

ala (n class, plural ala)

1. tool, instrument

   Synonym: kifaa

2. sheath, scabbard

-ála

1. to refuse

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

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

ala (comparative daha ala, superlative en ala)

1. multicolored, pied, variegated
2. Clipping of alabalık (“trout”).

ala

1. come on (encouragement)

Related to Finnish älä.

ala

1. second-person singular imperative of ei
2. do not

ala m

1. harness strap; the strap pulled through the shaft and wherein the harness peg is inserted

If instead an iron hasp is used, it is called al-ösp f.

-ala^?

1. to refuse

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

-âla

1. to deny, refuse, decline
2. to forbid
3. to reject
4. to refuse give [+ na- (object)]
5. to hate, detest

• -alela (applicative)
• -alisa (causative)
• -alayala (diminutive)
• -alisisa (intensive)
• -aleka (neuter-passive)
• -aliwa (passive)
• -alana (reciprocal)

• C. M. Doke; B. W. Vilakazi (1972), “ala”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “ala”