alat

See also: ålat and Alat

Catalan

Etymology

From ala +‎ -at.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central) [əˈlat]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [aˈlat]

Adjective

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

1. winged

Further reading

• “alat”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “alat”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “alat” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “alat”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Cebuano

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

alat

1. (slang) police officer

   Synonym: polis

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Tagalog alat (“saltiness”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

alat

1. salted eggs

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: a‧lat
• IPA^(key): /ʔaˈlat/ [ʔɐˈl̪at̪]

Noun

alát

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

Verb

alát

1. to make such basket

Central Bikol

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʔaˈlat/ [ʔaˈl̪at]
• Hyphenation: a‧lat

Noun

alát (Basahan spelling ᜀᜎᜆ᜔)

1. nonstandard form of halat

Finnish

Etymology 1

Verb

alat

1. second-person singular present indicative of alkaa

Etymology 2

Noun

alat

1. nominative plural of ala

Anagrams

• -ltaa, alta, lata

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/ [ʔaˈlɐt]
• Rhymes: -at
• Syllabification: a‧lat

Noun

alát (Hanunoo spelling ᜠᜮᜦ᜴)

1. large rattan storage basket

See also

• bandi

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

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈalat/ [ˈa.lat̪̚]
• Rhymes: -alat
• Syllabification: a‧lat

Etymology 1

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

• Partly displaced native radas

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

Affixations

• dialati
• dialatkan
• diperalat
• diperalati
• memperalat
• memperalati
• mengalati
• mengalatkan
• peralatan

Compounds

• alat angkut
• alat baca cetak
• alat baca mikro
• alat bantu dengar
• alat bantu pandang dengar
• alat bantu pengajaran
• alat bantu pernapasan
• alat berat
• alat bibliografis
• alat bicara
• alat bidik
• alat bukti
• alat cetak jauh
• alat cukur listrik
• alat diplomasi kultural
• alat hukum
• alat kecantikan
• alat kejut listrik
• alat kekuasaan
• alat kelamin
• alat kelengkapan
• alat keluarga berencana
• alat kesehatan
• alat komunikasi
• alat komunikasi politik partai
• alat konsentrasi
• alat kontrasepsi
• alat kontrol
• alat listrik
• alat masak
• alat masukan
• alat musik
• alat musik gesek
• alat musik petik
• alat musik pukul
• alat musik tiup
• alat musuh
• alat negara
• alat olahraga
• alat pacu jantung
• alat pameran
• alat pandang
• alat pandang dengar
• alat pelajaran
• alat pemadam kebakaran
• alat pemanas
• alat pembayaran
• alat pembayaran luar negeri
• alat pembayaran nontunai
• alat pembayaran tunai
• alat pembeban lutut
• alat pembersih
• alat pembuktian
• alat pemecah kulit
• alat pemecah kulit gabah
• alat pemerintahan
• alat pencegah kehamilan
• alat pencernaan
• alat penciuman
• alat pendengar
• alat pendingin
• alat pendobrak
• alat penerangan
• alat pengecambah
• alat pengeras suara
• alat pengering berlanjut
• alat penghapus suara
• alat penghidu
• alat pengisap
• alat pengisap oral
• alat penglihatan
• alat pengontrol
• alat pengumpul kerang
• alat pengumpul rumput laut
• alat penyedot
• alat penyeduh kopi
• alat penyekat
• alat penyosoh
• alat peraga
• alat perang
• alat perasa
• alat perekam
• alat pernapasan
• alat perontok gabah
• alat perum
• alat potret
• alat pres hidraulik
• alat putar cepat
• alat raja
• alat rajah
• alat rekam jantung
• alat reproduksi
• alat senjata
• alat suntik
• alat tani
• alat tenun
• alat tetas
• alat tulis
• alat ucap
• alat uji
• alat uji kehamilan
• alat ukur
• alat ukur cahaya
• alat ukur hujan
• alat ukur hujan otomatis
• alat vital

Descendants

• → Tetum: alat

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Minangkabau [Term?]

Noun

alat (plural alat-alat)

1. guest
2. feast

Derived terms

Affixation

• beralat
• memperalatkan
• peralatan

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

Further reading

• “alat”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

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 or alat²)

1. tool

Northern Kurdish

Alternative forms

• alet, halat, halet

Etymology

From Arabic آلَة (ʔāla).

Noun

alat ?

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

Pagu

Etymology

From Malay alat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈa.lat]

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Noun

alat (epenthetic form alata)

1. tool

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• hàlāt (Bosnia, poetic)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

àlāt m inan (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

• oruđe, pomagalo

Derived terms

• àlatka

Further reading

• “alat”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026
• “alat”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

Tagalog

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈʔalat/ [ˈʔaː.lɐt̪̚]
• Rhymes: -alat
• Syllabification: a‧lat

Etymology 1

Inherited 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

   Synonyms: malas, kamalasan

Derived terms

• alat-alatan
• alatan
• maalat
• maalat-alat
• pakaalatan
• takaw-alat
• tubig-alat

See also

• Malate

Etymology 2

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

Noun

alat (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎᜆ᜔) (slang, back slang)

1. police officer; cop

   Synonyms: (slang) lespu, (slang) parak, pulis

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• Taal, tala, alta, taal, lata