alat

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See also: ålat and Alat

Bikol Central

Pronunciation

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

Noun

alát (Basahan spelling ᜀᜎᜆ᜔)

  1. nonstandard form of halat

Catalan

Etymology

From ala +‎ -at.

Pronunciation

Adjective

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

  1. winged

Further reading

Cebuano

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

alat

  1. (slang) police officer
    Synonym: polis

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Tagalog alat (“saltiness”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

alat

  1. salted eggs

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

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

Noun

alát

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

Verb

alát

  1. to make such basket

Finnish

Etymology 1

Verb

alat

  1. second-person singular present indicative of alkaa

Etymology 2

Noun

alat

  1. nominative plural of ala

Anagrams

Hanunoo

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qalat. Compare Cebuano alat (“big and tall wide-mouth basket”), Hiligaynon alat, and Indonesian alat (“basket”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔaˈlat/
  • Rhymes: -at
  • Syllabification: a‧lat

Noun

alát (Hanunoo spelling ᜠᜮᜦ᜴)

  1. large rattan storage basket

See also

Further reading

  • Conklin, Harold C. (1953) Hanunóo-English Vocabulary (University of California Publications in Linguistics), volume 9, London, England: University of California Press, →OCLC, page 24
  • Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*qalat”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Hiligaynon

Noun

alát

  1. basket

Indonesian

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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

Noun

alat (plural alat-alat)

  1. tool
    1. device intended to make a task easier; Any mechanical device meant to ease or do a task
      Synonyms: peranti, perkakas, radas
    2. any piece of equipment used in a profession, e.g. a craftman's tools
      Synonym: perkakas
    3. something to perform an operation; an instrument; a means
      Synonym: wahana
    4. a person or group which is used or controlled, usually unwittingly, by another person or group
  2. equipment
    Synonym: perlengkapan
Derived terms
Affixation
Compounds

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Minangkabau

Noun

alat (plural alat-alat)

  1. guest
  2. feast
Derived terms
Affixation

Etymology 3

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

Noun

alat (plural alat-alat)

  1. basket

References

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

Further reading

Kott

Etymology

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

Noun

alat

  1. woman

Synonyms

Latin

Verb

alat

  1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of alō

Malay

Etymology

From Arabic آلَة (ʔāla).

Noun

alat (Jawi spelling الت, plural alat-alat)

  1. tool

Northern Kurdish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Arabic آلَة (ʔāla).

Noun

alat ?

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

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

àlāt m (Cyrillic spelling а̀ла̄т, relational adjective àlātnī)

  1. tool
  2. instrument

Declension

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

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “alat”, in Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
  • “alat”, in Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Tagalog

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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

alat (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎᜆ᜔)

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

Noun

alat (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎᜆ᜔)

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

Etymology 2

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

Noun

alat (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎᜆ᜔)

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

Further reading

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

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