- IPA(key): /ʔaˈlat/ [ʔaˈl̪at]
- Hyphenation:a‧lat
alát (Basahan spellingᜀᜎᜆ᜔)
- Nonstandard form ofhalat.
Fromala +-at.
alat (femininealada,masculine pluralalats,feminine pluralalades)
- winged
Borrowed fromTagalogalat(“slang: police officer”).
- Hyphenation:a‧lat
- IPA(key): /ˈʔalat/ [ˈʔa.l̪ɐt̪]
alat
- (slang)police officer
- Synonym:polis
Borrowed fromTagalogalat(“saltiness”).
- Hyphenation:a‧lat
- IPA(key): /ˈʔalat/ [ˈʔa.l̪ɐt̪]
alat
- saltedeggs
- Hyphenation:a‧lat
- IPA(key): /ʔaˈlat/ [ʔɐˈl̪at̪]
alát
- big andtallwide-mouthbasket withloosemeshweave
alát
- tomake such basket
alat
- second-personsingularpresentindicative ofalkaa
alat
- nominativeplural ofala
Inherited fromProto-Malayo-Polynesian*qalat. CompareCebuanoalat(“big and tall wide-mouth basket”),Hiligaynonalat, andIndonesianalat(“basket”).
- IPA(key): /ʔaˈlat/[ʔaˈlɐt]
- Rhymes:-at
- Syllabification:a‧lat
alát (Hanunoo spellingᜠᜮᜦ᜴)
- largerattanstoragebasket
- Conklin, Harold C. (1953)Hanunóo-English Vocabulary (University of California Publications in Linguistics), volume 9, London, England: University of California Press,→OCLC,page24
- Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*qalat”, in the CLDF dataset fromThe Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–),→DOI
alát
- basket
Inherited fromMalayalat, fromClassical Malayالت(alat), fromArabicآلَة(ʔāla).[1]
alat (pluralalat-alat)
- tool
- device intended to make a task easier; Any mechanicaldevice meant to ease or do a task
- Synonyms:peranti,perkakas,radas
- any piece ofequipment used in a profession, e.g. a craftman'stools
- Synonym:perkakas
- something to perform an operation; aninstrument; ameans
- Synonym:wahana
- a person or group which is used or controlled, usuallyunwittingly, by another person or group
- equipment
- Synonym:perlengkapan
Borrowed fromMinangkabau[Term?]
alat (pluralalat-alat)
- guest
- feast
(Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium.)
alat (pluralalat-alat)
- basket
- ^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
FromProto-Yeniseian*ʔalit (˜-ŕ-). CompareArinbɨqam-álte,biqam-álte, andkekm-elte(“wife”).
alat
- woman
alat
- third-personsingularpresentactivesubjunctive ofalō
FromArabicآلَة(ʔāla).
alat (Jawi spellingالت,pluralalat-alat)
- tool
FromArabicآلَة(ʔāla).
alat ?
- tool,implement
- instrument
- device
- apparatus
- appliance
Borrowed fromOttoman Turkishآلت(âlet) (Turkishalet), fromPersianآلت(âlat), fromArabicآلَة(ʔāla).
- IPA(key): /ǎlaːt/
- Hyphenation:a‧lat
àlāt m (Cyrillic spellingа̀ла̄т,relational adjectiveàlātnī)
- tool
- instrument
FromProto-Philippine*aDat. CompareIlocanoadat(“bad taste”),Kapampanganalat(“saltiness”),Masbatenyoarat(“saltiness”),Aklanonaeat(“salty”), andHiligaynonalat(“saltiness”). For the "unlucky" sense, compareSpanishsalado(“unlucky (of a person)”, literally“salty”).
alat (Baybayin spellingᜀᜎᜆ᜔)
- salty
- Synonym:maalat
- (figurative)unlucky
- Synonym:malas
alat (Baybayin spellingᜀᜎᜆ᜔)
- saltiness
- (figurative)badluck;unluckiness
- Synonym:malas
Backslang fromtala(“star”), a reference to the star badges worn by police officers.
alat (Baybayin spellingᜀᜎᜆ᜔)
- (slang, back slang)police officer;cop
- Synonyms:(slang)lespu,(slang)parak,pulis
- “alat”, inPambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila,2018
- Zorc, R. David, San Miguel, Rachel (1993)Tagalog Slang Dictionary[2], Manila: De La Salle University Press,→ISBN
