Ala

Ala, ALA, Alaa or Alae may refer to:

Places

Ala, Hiiu County, Estonia, a village
Ala, Valga County, Estonia, a village
Ala, Alappuzha, Kerala, India, a village
Ala, Iran, a village in Semnan Province
Ala, Gotland, Sweden
Alad, Seydun or Ala, a village in Khuzestan Province, Iran
Ala, Trentino, Italy, a comune
Alà dei Sardi, Italy, a comune
Alabama, a state in the United States
Alae (Cilicia), a town of ancient Cilicia

Science

Acetylated lanolin alcohol
Ala of nose, in human anatomy
Alae (nematode anatomy)
Ala (or A), abbreviation for alanine, an α-amino acid
Alpha lipoic acid, a nutritional supplement
Alpha-linolenic acid, an omega−3 fatty acid
δ-aminolevulinic acid or δ-ALA

Mythology and religion

Ala (demon), a female demon in Serbian mythology
Ala (Luwian goddess), a Hittite and Luwian goddess
Ala (Odinani), an Alusi (deity) in the Odinani beliefs of the Igbo people of Nigeria

Military

USS Ala (YT-139), a US Navy tugboat
Ala (Roman allied military unit), a Republican-period, largely infantry, formation of 5,400 men
Ala (Roman cavalry unit), an Imperial-period, purely cavalry, formation of 500 men
American Legion Auxiliary
Arab Liberation Army
Arakan Liberation Army

Organizations

African Leadership Academy
Alleanza Liberalpopolare – Autonomie, an Italian political party
Allgemeine Anzeigen GmbH
American Latvian Association
American Leadership Academy
American Legion Auxiliary
American Library Association
American Literature Association
American Lung Association
Arizona Lutheran Academy
Associate of the Library Association
Association for Laboratory Automation
Australian Lacrosse Association
Australian Liberty Alliance, a political party

Codes

Åland Islands, ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code
Åland, ISO 3166-1 country code
Former NYSE stock symbol of Alcatel; see Alcatel-Lucent
Almaty International Airport, IATA code

People

Ala or Alaa (Arabic: علاء ‘alā’) is an Arabic male given name meaning "elevation, exaltedness, highness, loftiness, sublimity" or "honor and glory, might, power, dignity" or "prestige, greatness, noble, high in rank" or "eminence, glorious, grandeur" or "high in position and status". However, the name could be used as a female given name.

Ala al-Din Atsiz (died 1214), Sultan of the Ghurid dynasty from 1213 to 1214
Ala al-Din Ali, last Sultan of the Ghurid dynasty, from 1214 to 1215
Kayqubad I or Alā ad-Dīn Kayqubād bin Kaykāvūs (1188–1237), Seljuq Sultan of Rûm
Ala al-Din Abu al-Hassan Ali ibn Abi-Hazm al-Qurashi al-Dimashq, or Ibn al-Nafis, (1213–1288), Arab Muslim polymath
Ala ul-Haq (d. 1398), Islamic scholar of Bengal
Ata-Malik Juvayni (in full: Ala al-Din Ata-ullah) (1226–1283), Persian historian
Alā ud-Dīn Atsiz, Khwarazm Shah from 1127 until his death in 1156
Ala ad-Din Tekish, (died 1200), Khwarazm Shah from 1172
Ala ad-Din Muhammad II of Khwarezm (died 1221), Khwarazm Shah from 1200
Ala ud din Masud, Sultan of Delhi from 1242 to 1246
Ala ud-Daula Simnani (1261–1336), Persian Sūfī, writer and teacher
Ala Al-Kuwaikabi (born 1980), Saudi Arabian former footballer
Ala Al-Sasi (born 1987), Yemeni footballer
Ala Bashir (born 1939), Iraqi painter, sculptor and plastic surgeon
Ala Boratyn (born 1992), Polish singer also known as simply Ala
Ala Mândâcanu (born 1954), Moldovan politician and journalist
Ala Nemerenco (born 1959), Moldovan politician
Ala Stanford, American physician
Weld El 15, Tunisian rapper born Ala Yaacoubi
Efkan Ala (born 1965), Turkish civil servant and government minister
Hossein Ala' (1882–1964), former prime minister of Iran
Alaa Abd El-Fatah, Egyptian blogger
Alaa Abdelnaby, Egyptian-American retired professional basketball player, current broadcaster/analyst
Alaa Batayneh, Jordanian businessman and politician
Alaa Gatea, Iraqi footballer
Alaa Ibrahim, Egyptian footballer
Alaa Mubarak, Egyptian businessman
Alaa Murabit, Canadian Physician, Commissioner
Alaa Al Shbli, Syrian footballer
Alaa Al-Zahra, Iraqi footballer

Other uses

Acta Linguistica Asiatica, linguistics journal
ALA-LC, a set of romanization standards
Atlas of Living Australia, online data
Austral Líneas Aéreas, an Argentine domestic airline
- Former airline Aerotransportes Litoral Argentino, merged into Austral Líneas Aéreas
'Alá', the last month of the Bahá'í calendar

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