# alang
## English
### Preposition

alang
* Pronunciation spelling of along.

### Anagrams

* Galan, Lagan, Ngala, lagan

## Bikol Central
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʔaˈlaŋ/ [ʔaˈl̪aŋ]
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: a‧lang

### Adjective

aláng (plural aralang, Basahan spelling ᜀᜎᜅ᜔)
* (Naga) dry; arid
    Synonym: mara
    Antonyms: basa, dumog

#### Derived terms

* maalang
* mag-alang
* makaalang
* paalang
* pag-alang
* pagkaalang
* tag-alang

### Noun

aláng (Basahan spelling ᜀᜎᜅ᜔)
* dried fish
    Synonym: tuyo

## Cebuano
### Etymology

Compare alang-alang, and Tagalog alang-alang (“regards”)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈʔalaŋ/ [ˈʔa.l̪ɐŋ]
* Hyphenation: a‧lang

### Preposition

álang (Badlit spelling ᜀᜎᜅ᜔)
* (formal) for (the sake of)
    Synonym: para
    alang sa nasod ― for the country
    alang sa Ginoo ― for God

#### Related terms

* alang-alang
* alangan
* alanganin
* ang-ang

## Indonesian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈa.laŋ/, [ˈa.laŋ]
* Hyphenation: alang

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Malay alang, from Classical Malay الڠ (alang), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qalaŋ (“obstruct, lie across or athwart”). Doublet of halang.

#### Noun

alang (plural alang-alang)
* crossbeam, bar going across.
* room divider
    Synonym: sekat

##### Derived terms

* alangan
* beralang
* beralangan
* mengalang
* mengalang-alangi
* mengalangi
* mengalangkan
* pengalang
* teralang
* teralang-alang

#### Adjective

alang
* middle
    Synonym: sedang
* middle, moderate
    Synonym: tengah
* half-baked, incomplete
    Synonyms: tanggung, setengah-setengah

##### Derived terms

* alang hari
* alang kepalang
* alang-alangan

#### Related terms

* halang
* palang

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Minangkabau alang.

#### Noun

alang (uncountable)
* gift
    Synonyms: hadiah, pemberian

### Etymology 3

Borrowed from Acehnese [Term?].

#### Noun

alang (uncountable)
* long neck bottle.

### Etymology 4

Borrowed from Sasak [Term?]. Cognate of Karao alang.

#### Noun

alang (uncountable)
* granary
    Synonym: lumbung

### Further reading

* “alang” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Javanese
### Romanization

alang
* Romanization of ꦲꦭꦁ

## Karao
### Noun

alang
* rice granary

## Malay
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *alaŋ-alaŋ (“insufficient, half-heartedly”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /alaŋ/
* Rhymes: -alaŋ, -laŋ, -aŋ

### Noun

alang (plural alang-alang, informal 1st possessive alangku, 2nd possessive alangmu, 3rd possessive alangnya)
* a form of address for the third child.
* (colloquial) a form of address for a sibling that is neither the eldest nor the youngest.

### Adjective

alang
* medium; half-and-half
* little (of account)

### Further reading

* “alang” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
* Wilkinson, Richard James. An Abridged Malay-English Dictionary. Macmillan. 1965.

## Northern Catanduanes Bicolano
### Adjective

aláng
* early

## Scots
### Preposition

alang
* along

### Adjective

alang (comparative further, superlative furthest)
* along

## Veps
### Etymology

From ala- +‎ -ng.

### Noun

alang
* trough, hollow, depression
* lowland

#### Inflection
### References

* Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “впадина, низина, понижение”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎, Petrozavodsk: Periodika