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alat

See also: ålat

Bikol Central edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ʔaˈlat/, [ʔaˈl̪at]
  • Hyphenation: a‧lat

Noun edit

alát (Basahan spelling ᜀᜎᜆ᜔)

  1. Nonstandard form of halat.

Catalan edit

Etymology edit

From ala +‎ -at.

Pronunciation edit

Adjective edit

alat (feminine alada, masculine plural alats, feminine plural alades)

  1. winged

Further reading edit

Cebuano edit

Etymology 1 edit

Borrowed from Tagalog alat (“slang: police officer”).

Pronunciation edit

  • Hyphenation: a‧lat
  • IPA(key): /ˈʔalat/, [ˈʔa.l̪ʌt̪]

Noun edit

alat

  1. (slang) police officer
    Synonym: polis

Etymology 2 edit

Borrowed from Tagalog alat (“saltiness”).

Pronunciation edit

  • Hyphenation: a‧lat
  • IPA(key): /ˈʔalat/, [ˈʔa.l̪ʌt̪]

Noun edit

alat

  1. salted eggs

Etymology 3 edit

Pronunciation edit

  • Hyphenation: a‧lat
  • IPA(key): /ʔaˈlat/, [ʔʌˈl̪at̪]

Noun edit

alát

  1. big and tall wide-mouth basket with loose mesh weave

Verb edit

alát

  1. to make such basket

Finnish edit

Etymology 1 edit

Verb edit

alat

  1. second-person singular present indicative of alkaa

Etymology 2 edit

Noun edit

alat

  1. nominative plural of ala

Anagrams edit

Hiligaynon edit

Noun edit

alát

  1. basket

Indonesian edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

Inherited from Malay alat, from Classical Malay الت (alat), from Arabic آلَة (ʔāla).[1]

Noun edit

alat (first-person possessive alatku, second-person possessive alatmu, third-person possessive alatnya)

  1. tool, instrument
Synonyms edit
Derived terms edit
Affixation
Compounds

Etymology 2 edit

Borrowed from Minangkabau [Term?]

Noun edit

alat (first-person possessive alatku, second-person possessive alatmu, third-person possessive alatnya)

  1. guest
  2. feast
Derived terms edit
Affixation

Etymology 3 edit

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun edit

alat (first-person possessive alatku, second-person possessive alatmu, third-person possessive alatnya)

  1. basket

References edit

  1. ^ Erwina Burhanuddin, Abdul Gaffar Ruskhan, R.B. Chrismanto (1993) Penelitian kosakata bahasa Arab dalam bahasa Indonesia [Research on Arabic vocabulary in Indonesian]‎[1], Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa, Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, →ISBN, →OCLC

Further reading edit

Kott edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Yeniseian *ʔalit (˜-ŕ-). Compare Arin bɨqam-álte, biqam-álte, and kekm-elte (“wife”).

Noun edit

alat

  1. woman

Synonyms edit

Latin edit

Verb edit

alat

  1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of alō

Malay edit

Etymology edit

From Arabic آلَة (ʔāla).

Noun edit

alat (Jawi spelling الت, plural alat-alat, informal 1st possessive alatku, 2nd possessive alatmu, 3rd possessive alatnya)

  1. tool

Northern Kurdish edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Arabic آلَة (ʔāla).

Noun edit

alat ?

  1. tool, implement
  2. instrument
  3. device
  4. apparatus
  5. appliance

Serbo-Croatian edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish آلت (âlet) (Turkish alet), from Persian آلت (âlat), from Arabic آلَة (ʔāla).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ǎlaːt/
  • Hyphenation: a‧lat

Noun edit

àlāt m (Cyrillic spelling а̀ла̄т)

  1. tool
  2. instrument

Declension edit

Declension of alat
singular plural
nominative alat alati
genitive alata alata
dative alatu alatima
accusative alat alate
vocative alate alati
locative alatu alatima
instrumental alatom alatima

Synonyms edit

Derived terms edit

Tagalog edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Proto-Philippine *aDat. Compare Ilocano adat (“bad taste”), Kapampangan alat (“saltiness”), Masbatenyo arat (“saltiness”), Aklanon aeat (“salty”), and Hiligaynon alat (“saltiness”). For the "unlucky" sense, compare Spanish salado (“unlucky (of a person)”, literally “salty”).

Adjective edit

alat (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎᜆ᜔)

  1. salty
    Synonym: maalat
  2. (figurative) unlucky
    Synonym: malas

Noun edit

alat (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎᜆ᜔)

  1. saltiness
  2. (figurative) bad luck; unluckiness
    Synonym: malas
Derived terms edit

Etymology 2 edit

Backslang from tala (“star”), a reference to the star badges worn by police officers.

Noun edit

alat (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎᜆ᜔)

  1. (slang, back slang) police officer; cop
    Synonyms: (slang) lespu, (slang) parak, pulis

Further reading edit

  • “alat”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
  • Zorc, R. David, San Miguel, Rachel (1993) Tagalog Slang Dictionary‎[2], Manila: De La Salle University Press, →ISBN
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