alas

From Middle English alas, from Old French a las (French hélas), from a (“ah”) + las, from Latin lassus (“weary”). Compare Dutch helaas, North Frisian ielas, West Frisian eilaas.

• (obsolete) helas

• (UK) IPA^(key): /əˈlæs/, /əˈlɑːs/
• (US) IPA^(key): /əˈlæs/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ɘˈlɛs/

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• Rhymes: -æs

alas

1. Used to express sorrow, regret, compassion or grief.

   I wanted to catch the last bus home, but alas, I was ten minutes late and had to take a taxi instead.

   Synonym: alack

   • c. 1521, John Skelton, “Speke Parott”:

     Helas I lamente the dull abuſyd brayne
     The enfatuate fantaſies the wytles wylfulnes
     Of on and hothyr at me that haue dyſdayne

   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     Act V, Scene I

     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.

• alack and alas
• alas and alack
• alas the day, alas the while

From Yakut алаас (alaas).

alas (plural alases or alasses)

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

• AALS, ALSA, LAAS, Lasa, aals, sala

• alasu, las, lasu

From Latin laxō. Compare Romanian lăsa, las.

alas (past participle alãsatã)

1. I let, allow.
2. I leave (something), drop.

• paralas
• alãsãtonj

• alãsari / alãsare
• alãsat
• alãsãturã

alas

1. Romanization of ᬳᬮᬲ᭄.

Blend of a +‎ las. From Spanish a las.

alas

1. o'clock

From Spanish as.

alas

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

alas

1. inessive singular of ala

• alaha (dialectal)

From Proto-Finnic *alas. Equivalent to ala- +‎ -s (s-lative singular).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑlɑs/, [ˈɑlɑs̠]
• Rhymes: -ɑlɑs
• Syllabification^(key): a‧las

alas (comparative alemmaksi or alemmas, superlative alimmaksi or alimmas)

1. down
2. downward

• alhaalle

• (down; downward): ylös

alas

1. (followed by a nominative) down with (e.g. in demonstrations)

   Alas rikolliset!

   Down with the criminals!

alas

1. second-person singular present imperative of alkaa (with the suffix -s)

• sala, sala-

• IPA^(key): /a.las/
• Hyphenation: a‧las

From Malay alas (“base, layer”), from Classical Malay الس‎ (alas), probably Javanese ꦲꦭꦱ꧀ (alas, “excuse”), from Old Javanese leśya, liśya (“excuse, pretext”), from Prakrit *lissa, *līsa, *lēssa (“defective”), from Sanskrit लेश (leśa, “figure of speech”), लिश् (liś, “move, go”).

alas (first-person possessive alasku, second-person possessive alasmu, third-person possessive alasnya)

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

• dasar
• basis
• lapik

From Javanese alas (ꦲꦭꦱ꧀, “forest”), from Old Javanese alas (“forest”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *halas (“forest, wilderness, woods, jungle”), from Proto-Austronesian *Salas (“forest, wilderness, woods”). Cognate to Balinese ᬳᬮᬲ᭄ (alas, “forest”).

alas (first-person possessive alasku, second-person possessive alasmu, third-person possessive alasnya)

1. forest

   Synonyms: hutan, rimba, wana

From Javanese [Term?].

alas (first-person possessive alasku, second-person possessive alasmu, third-person possessive alasnya)

1. rope on a small boat balancer

• “alas” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

• Carakan: ꦲꦭꦱ꧀

Inherited from Old Javanese alas (“forest”). Cognate to Balinese ᬳᬮᬲ᭄ (alas, “forest”).

alas (ngoko alas, krama wana)

1. forest
2. fields outside a village

• → Indonesian: alas

• “[ alas]” in Bausastra Jawa, Yogyakarta: The Linguistic Center of Yogyakarta [Balai Bahasa Provinsi Yogyakarta].

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈaː.laːs/, [ˈäːɫ̪äːs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.las/, [ˈäːläs]

ālās

1. accusative plural of āla

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.laːs/, [ˈäɫ̪äːs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.las/, [ˈäːläs]

alās

1. second-person singular present active subjunctive of alō

• alas in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

• IPA^(key): /a.las/

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

alas (Jawi spelling الس‎, plural alas-alas, informal 1st possessive alasku, 2nd possessive alasmu, 3rd possessive alasnya)

1. base, framework, layer, pad, foundation

from Old French a las.

alas

1. alas
   • 1470–1483 (date produced)​, Thomas Malory, “[Morte Arthur]”, in Le Morte Darthur (British Library Additional Manuscript 59678), [England: s.n.], folio 451, verso, lines 13–14:

     Alas ſeyde quene Gwenyu[er] now ar we myſcheved bothe //

     “Alas!” said Queen Guinevere, “now are we mischieved both!”

• English: alas

alas

1. plural of ala

alas

1. plural of ala

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *halas (“forest, wilderness, woods, jungle”), from Proto-Austronesian *Salas (“forest, wilderness, woods”).

alas

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

• Javanese: alas

alas

1. plural of ala

alas

1. plural of ala

alas

1. second-person singular present indicative of alar

àlās m (Cyrillic spelling а̀ла̄с)

1. alternative form of hàlās

alas f pl

1. plural of ala

alas

1. forest

Borrowed from Spanish al as.

• Hyphenation: a‧las
• IPA^(key): /ʔaˈlas/, [ʔɐˈlas]

alás

1. (card games) ace
2. (figuratively, by extension) trump card

Borrowed from Spanish a las.

• Hyphenation: a‧las
• IPA^(key): /ʔaˈlas/, [ʔɐˈlas]

alás

1. o'clock (except for one o' clock)

   Synonym: (for one o' clock) ala

• Hyphenation: a‧las
• IPA^(key): /ʔaˈlas/, [ʔɐˈlas] (adjective)
• IPA^(key): /ˈʔalas/, [ˈʔa.lɐs] (noun)

alás

1. cut short and even

alas

1. act of cutting or lopping off growth evenly

   Synonym: palas

• alasin

• “alas”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018
• Zorc, David Paul (1979-1983) Core Etymological Dictionary of Filipino: Part 1‎, page 9

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *halas, from Proto-Austronesian *Salas.

alas

1. forest