alas

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

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

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Audio (AU)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -æs

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.

• 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, LAAS, Lasa, aals, sala

• alasu, las, lasu

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

alas (past participle alãsatã)

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

• paralas
• alãsãtonj

• alãsari / alãsare
• alãsat
• alãsãturã

alas

1. forest

Blend of a +‎ las. From Spanish a las.

alas

1. o'clock

From Spanish as

alas

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑlɑs/, [ˈɑlɑs̠]

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

1. down
2. downward

• (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 imperative present form of alkaa + the suffix -s.

• sala, sala-

• IPA^(key): /a.las/

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

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

• dasar
• basis
• lapik

alas

1. forest
2. fields outside a village

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

ālās

1. accusative plural of āla

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

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, 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

1. base, framework, layer, pad, foundation

alas

1. plural of ala

alas

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

alas

1. plural of ala

alas

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

• alaša
• hàlas

From Hungarian halász (“fisherman”).

àlās m (Cyrillic spelling а̀ла̄с)

1. (regional) a river fisherman

• rìbīč

• IPA^(key): /ˈalas/

alas f pl

1. plural of ala

alas

1. forest