alas

See also: álás, àlas, alās, a las, and άλας

English

WOTD – 24 September 2015

Etymology 1

From Old French a las (French hélas), from a (“ah”) + las, from Latin lassus (“weary”). Compare Dutch helaas.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /əˈlæs/, /əˈlɑːs/
  • (US) IPA(key): /əˈlæs/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -æs

Interjection

alas

  1. Used to express sorrow, regret, compassion or grief.
    Synonym: alack
    • c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals):
      Act 5, Scene 1
      Alas, Poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rims at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make her laugh at that.
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

From Yakut алаас (alaas).

Noun

alas (plural alases or alasses)

  1. A type of depression which occurs in Yakutia, formed by the subsidence of permafrost.

Translations

Anagrams

Aromanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin laxō. Compare Daco-Romanian lăsa, las.

Verb

alas (past participle alãsatã)

  1. I let, allow.
  2. I leave (something), drop.
  • alãsari/alãsare
  • alãsat

Balinese

Noun

alas

  1. forest

Cebuano

Etymology 1

Blend of a +‎ las. From Spanish a las.

Adverb

alas

  1. o'clock

Etymology 2

From Spanish as

Noun

alas

  1. (card games) an ace; a card sith a single spot
  2. a trump card

Finnish

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *alas, from Proto-Uralic *ëla. Cognates include Estonian all and Hungarian alatt (the lative singular of ala-).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɑlɑs/

Adverb

alas (comparative alemmaksi, superlative alimmaksi)

  1. down
  2. downward

Inflection

Declension of alas
noun case singular pluraladverbial
form		 singular plural
nominative ala- –superessive alhaalla –
genitive – –delative alhaalta –
partitive – –sublative alhaalle –
accusative – –lative alas –
inessive – –temporal – –
elative – –causative – –
illative – –multiplicative – –
adessive alla –distributive – –
ablative alta –temp. dist. – –
allative alle –prolative ali
alitse		 –
essive – –situative allekkain
alakkain		 –
translative – –oppositive alatusten –
instructive – –
abessive – –
comitative – –

Antonyms

Interjection

alas

  1. (followed by a nominative) down with (e.g. in demonstrations)
    Alas rikolliset!
    Down with the criminals!

Verb

alas

  1. Second-person singular imperative present form of alkaa + the suffix -s.

Anagrams

Indonesian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a.las/

Noun

alas

  1. base, foundation
  2. layer, lining, covering

Synonyms

Javanese

Noun

alas

  1. forest
  2. fields outside a village

Latin

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈaː.laːs/, [ˈaː.ɫaːs]

Noun

ālās

  1. accusative plural of āla

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈa.laːs/, [ˈa.ɫaːs]

Verb

alās

  1. second-person singular present active subjunctive of alō

References

Latvian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a.las/

Noun

alas f

  1. genitive singular form of ala
  2. nominative plural form of ala
  3. vocative plural form of ala
  4. accusative plural form of ala

Malay

Noun

alas

  1. base, framework, layer, pad, foundation

Mirandese

Noun

alas

  1. plural of ala

Old Javanese

Noun

alas

  1. wood, forest
  2. quantity of flowers or plants growing in a thick cluster

Portuguese

Noun

alas

  1. plural of ala

Verb

alas

  1. Second-person singular (tu) present indicative of alar

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Hungarian halász (“fisherman”).

Noun

àlās m (Cyrillic spelling а̀ла̄с)

  1. (regional) a river fisherman

Synonyms

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈalas/

Noun

alas f pl

  1. plural of ala

Sundanese

Noun

alas

  1. forest
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