ala

Etymology 1


Originated 1730–40, borrowed from. .

Noun

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

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Russian: ,

Etymology 2
Borrowed from, by way of its English derivation.

Etymology 1
Related to 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) animal, wild animal
 * 2) European, white person

Etymology 2
Related to 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) female camel

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) wing
 * 2) fin

Etymology 1
From.

Adjective

 * 1) variegated
 * 2)  blue

Noun

 * 1) vitiligo

Etymology 2
Likely from.

Interjection

 * 1) dude

Noun

 * 1) iroko (, syn.  )

Etymology
Presumably from.

Conjunction

 * 1) or exclusive

Usage notes
The conjunction is an exclusive or, while  is an inclusive or. For instance, while and  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.

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) wing appendage that enables flight

Verb

 * 1)  to arrive, to come (I)
 * 2)  to be born (I)
 * 3)  to be here, to get here (I)
 * 4)  to come to, to arrive at (I;3)
 * 1)  to come to, to arrive at (I;3)

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) area, territory, region
 * 2)  field
 * 3)  branch
 * 1)  branch
 * 1)  branch

Etymology
From, from , from.

Verb

 * 1)  to give birth to
 * 2) to foster
 * 3) to nourish
 * 4) to breed

Etymology 1
See ; this stem was repurposed as a noun meaning "underside, lower side", from which the other senses have developed.

Noun

 * 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)  area
 * 5)  underside
 * 1)  underside

Etymology
. Compare the inherited.

Noun

 * 1) wing

Etymology
, from earlier, from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) wing

Etymology 1
From, from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) way, path, road

Verb

 * 1) to waken
 * 2)  awake
 * 3) to arise, rise up

Synonyms

 * See Thesaurus:ala

Determiner

 * : that

Usage notes
and are more frequently used.

Noun

 * 1) grandfather

Etymology 1
From, from , from.

Verb

 * 1) to bear, give birth to
 * 2) to foster
 * 3) to feed, nourish

Etymology
Compare with 🇨🇬, probably from, displaced native

Noun

 * 1) sheep
 * 2)  idiot, stupid person
 * 1)  idiot, stupid person

Derived terms

 * Ígáláà

Alternative forms

 * ànị̀

Etymology 1
From. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Compare 🇨🇬, (🇨🇬).

Noun

 * 1) earth, land, soil, ground.

Etymology 2
From. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Possibly cognate with 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) breast
 * 2) milk

Preposition

 * , in the style or manner of.

Etymology 2
From.

Noun

 * 1)   with the owner or descendants still have the main rights in that land.

Etymology 3
From.

Etymology
.

Etymology 1
From.

Noun

 * 1) wing

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) snake

Etymology
From Proto-Central Philippine *wadaq, from, from.

Pronoun

 * 1) nothing; no one; none; nonexistent

Adjective

 * 1) missing; absent; gone; lost
 * 2)  dead
 * 1)  dead

Etymology
From.

Contraction

 * 1) at or to the

Etymology
For earlier, from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) A wing.
 * 2)  The upper and under part of the arm, where it unites with the shoulder; the armpit.
 * 3)  The hollow where the foreleg is joined to the shoulder; the shoulder blade.
 * 4)  The hollow where a limb joins the trunk of a tree.
 * 5)  The wings off the main room, the side apartments on the right and left of the court, the side halls or porches, waiting areas, the colonnades.
 * 6)  The wing of an army, cavalry force.
 * 7)  “wings” understood as the members of a group placed along the perimeter

Etymology
The usual theory considers to be borrowed from, from , or maybe from the same form in  or  (East Frisian); cf. 🇨🇬, all from.

A different view suggests that could also be a reflex of an old  stem, ,  with various 🇨🇬 reflexes: dialectal , , standard , ,  (cf. place names like , ), 🇨🇬. The original meaning of 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 🇨🇬 words.

Noun

 * 1) cave space or cavity formed underground, especially between rocks, or in the face of a cliff or hillside
 * 2) burrow, hole, lair, den the dwelling of some animals, in the form of a cavity with one or many exits
 * 1) burrow, hole, lair, den the dwelling of some animals, in the form of a cavity with one or many exits
 * 1) burrow, hole, lair, den the dwelling of some animals, in the form of a cavity with one or many exits
 * 1) burrow, hole, lair, den the dwelling of some animals, in the form of a cavity with one or many exits
 * 1) burrow, hole, lair, den the dwelling of some animals, in the form of a cavity with one or many exits
 * 1) burrow, hole, lair, den the dwelling of some animals, in the form of a cavity with one or many exits
 * 1) burrow, hole, lair, den the dwelling of some animals, in the form of a cavity with one or many exits

Etymology 1
From, from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) forest

Etymology 2
From.

Adverb

 * 1) without; freed from; removed from

Preposition

 * 1) like
 * 2) according to
 * 3) on

Noun

 * 1) wing
 * 2)  sail

Noun

 * 1) mistake

Verb

 * 1) to refuse

Etymology
From.

Adverb

 * 1) over
 * 2) on, on top

Derived terms

 * alcces-, alcce-, allas- (locative stems of )

Postposition

 * 1) over
 * 2) on, onto, on top of

Etymology 1
From, from , from.

Verb

 * 1) to foster

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) wing

Etymology
From. Cognates include 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) awl

Etymology 1
From, from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1) to produce
 * 2) to testify
 * 3) to breed
 * 4) to nourish

Etymology 1
From.

Noun

 * 1) wing limb
 * 2) * c. 1200, Almeric, , f. 67v. a.
 * "osp"

- la p̃mera ſemeiaua leon e auie alas de aguila ueye q̃ meſauan ſus alas e cayen atierra e ſobre ſos piedes como om̃e se leuãtaua

Etymology 2
A contraction of + ; the feminine singular definite article.

Contraction

 * 1)  to the, toward the
 * 2) * c. 1200, Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 2v. b.
 * "osp"

- Loth ouo miedo de ſeer en segor esubio alas mõtãnas cõ sus .ij. fijas. estido ẽ una cueua cõ sus .ij. fijas. edixo la maior ala menor. nr̃o padre es uyeio eno nos podremos caſar. com es derecho.


 * 1)  in the, at the
 * 2) * c. 1200, Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 2v. a.
 * "osp"

- eſtos angeles cõ q̃ fablo abraã. vinieron a ſodoma e loth ſedia ala puerta de la cibdat. e violos & leuãtos cõtra ellõ.

Etymology
From and.

Noun

 * 1) wing

Etymology
.

Etymology 1
. Compare the inherited doublet.

Noun

 * 1) a flank
 * 2)  a flank unit
 * 3)  wing position on either side of the field
 * 4)  faction ideologically distinct group within an organisation
 * 5) a row among a larger group of people or things
 * 6)  a rank or file of soldiers
 * 7)  a subdivision of a carnival block consisting of similarly themed participants
 * 8)  wing part of a building that extends from the main structure
 * 9)  each player’s half of the chessboard
 * 10)  wing part of an animal

Noun

 * 1)  wing; winger player in a wing position
 * 2)  wingman support pilot in a squadron

Interjection

 * 1) out! demanding that someone leave

Etymology
From, from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) path, way, lane, track

Etymology
From, from , from.

Noun

 * 1) snake

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  wing
 * 2) mouldboard

Adverb

 * 1)  expression of awe, surprise, dismay, etc.

Etymology 2
.

Adjective

 * 1) piebald, spotted

Etymology 3
, unless borrowed from, euphemistic for a snake.

Noun

 * 1) dragon, type of mythical creature similar to dragon

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) wing

Verb

 * 1) to refuse

Etymology 1
From (compare 🇨🇬), from.

Noun

 * 1) wing
 * 2) wing
 * 3) brim
 * 4)  flank
 * 5)  wing part of the field
 * 6)  flip, wings (hairstyle)

Noun

 * 1)  winger

Pronoun

 * 1) everything

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) tool, instrument
 * 2) sheath, scabbard
 * 1) sheath, scabbard

Verb

 * 1) to refuse

Etymology 2
, from.

Noun

 * 1)  wing
 * 2)  extension of building sideways
 * 1)  extension of building sideways

Etymology 3
of.

Etymology 4
.

Adverb

 * 1) o'clock

Etymology 1


From. Cognates include 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) path, road
 * 2) reason, cause
 * 3) method, way
 * 4) transport
 * 5) working section of a mat
 * 6)  rectum

Verb

 * 1)  to result from

Etymology 2
From. Cognates include 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1)  to be awake
 * 2)  to be accurate
 * 3)  to be sharp
 * 4)  to be close to the wind

Etymology
, from. .

Adjective

 * 1) multicolored, pied, variegated
 * 2) excellent, superb, splendid

Etymology
From earlier *lala via dissimilation (compare 🇨🇬), from via truncation, from, from.

Verb

 * 1) to know

Etymology
Related to 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1) do not
 * 1) do not

Verb

 * 1) to refuse

Verb

 * 1) drink

Noun

 * 1) purity, white cloth, a symbol of the god Ọbàtálá

Etymology 2
From.

Noun

 * 1) dream, vision

Verb

 * 1) to deny, refuse, decline
 * 2) to forbid
 * 3) to reject
 * 4) to refuse give
 * 5) to hate, detest