Wiktionary

alat

Bikol CentralEdit

PronunciationEdit

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

NounEdit

alat

  1. Nonstandard form of halat.

CatalanEdit

EtymologyEdit

ala +‎ -at

PronunciationEdit

AdjectiveEdit

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

  1. winged

Further readingEdit

CebuanoEdit

PronunciationEdit

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

Etymology 1Edit

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

NounEdit

alat

  1. (slang) police officer
    Synonym: polis

Etymology 2Edit

Borrowed from Tagalog alat (“saltiness”).

PronunciationEdit

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

NounEdit

alat

  1. salted eggs

Etymology 3Edit

NounEdit

alát

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

VerbEdit

alát

  1. to make such basket

FinnishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

VerbEdit

alat

  1. second-person singular present indicative of alkaa

Etymology 2Edit

NounEdit

alat

  1. nominative plural of ala

AnagramsEdit

HiligaynonEdit

NounEdit

alát

  1. basket

IndonesianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Malay alat, from Classical Malay الت‎ (alat), from Arabic آلَة‎ (ʾāla).[1]

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

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

  1. tool, instrument

SynonymsEdit

Derived termsEdit

Affixation
Compounds

ReferencesEdit

  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 29420936

Further readingEdit

KottEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

NounEdit

alat

  1. woman

SynonymsEdit

LatinEdit

VerbEdit

alat

  1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of alō

MalayEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Arabic آلَة‎ (ʾāla).

NounEdit

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

  1. tool

Northern KurdishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Arabic آلَة‎ (ʾāla).

NounEdit

alat ?

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

Serbo-CroatianEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

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

NounEdit

àlāt m (Cyrillic spelling а̀ла̄т)

  1. tool
  2. instrument

DeclensionEdit

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

SynonymsEdit

Derived termsEdit

TagalogEdit

PronunciationEdit

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

Etymology 1Edit

For the "unlucky" sense, compare Spanish salado (“unlucky (of a person)”, literally “salty”).

AdjectiveEdit

alat (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎᜆ᜔)

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

NounEdit

alat (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎᜆ᜔)

  1. saltiness
  2. (figuratively) bad luck; unluckiness
    Synonym: malas
Derived termsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

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

NounEdit

alat (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎᜆ᜔)

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

Further readingEdit

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