# alat
## Bikol Central
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʔaˈlat/ [ʔaˈl̪at]
* Hyphenation: a‧lat

### Noun

alát (Basahan spelling ᜀᜎᜆ᜔)
* Nonstandard form of halat.

## Catalan
### Etymology

From ala +‎ -at.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [əˈlat]
* IPA: (Valencia) [aˈlat]

### Adjective

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

### Further reading

* “alat” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “alat”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “alat” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “alat” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Cebuano
### Etymology 1

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

#### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: a‧lat
* IPA: /ˈʔalat/ [ˈʔa.l̪ɐt̪]

#### Noun

alat
* (slang) police officer
    Synonym: polis

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Tagalog alat (“saltiness”).

#### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: a‧lat
* IPA: /ˈʔalat/ [ˈʔa.l̪ɐt̪]

#### Noun

alat
* salted eggs

### Etymology 3
#### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: a‧lat
* IPA: /ʔaˈlat/ [ʔɐˈl̪at̪]

#### Noun

alát
* big and tall wide-mouth basket with loose mesh weave

#### Verb

alát
* to make such basket

## Finnish
### Etymology 1
#### Verb

alat
* second-person singular present indicative of alkaa

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

alat
* 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: /ʔaˈlat/ [ʔaˈlɐt]
* Rhymes: -at
* Syllabification: a‧lat

### Noun

alát (Hanunoo spelling ᜠᜮᜦ᜴)
* 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
* basket

## Indonesian
### Pronunciation

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

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

alat (plural alat-alat)
* tool
** device intended to make a task easier; Any mechanical device meant to ease or do a task.
    Synonyms: peranti, perkakas, radas
** Any piece of equipment used in a profession, e.g. a craftman's tools.
    Synonym: perkakas
** Something to perform an operation; an instrument; a means.
    Synonym: wahana
** A person or group which is used or controlled, usually unwittingly, by another person or group.
* equipment
    Synonym: perlengkapan

##### Derived terms

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

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Minangkabau [Term?]

#### Noun

alat (plural alat-alat)
* guest
* feast

##### Derived terms

* 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)
* basket

### References

* ↑ Erwina Burhanuddin, Abdul Gaffar Ruskhan, R.B. Chrismanto (1993) Penelitian kosakata bahasa Arab dalam bahasa Indonesia [Research on Arabic vocabulary in Indonesian]‎, Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa, Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, →ISBN, →OCLC

### Further reading

* “alat” 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.

## Kott
### Etymology

From Proto-Yeniseian *ʔalit (˜-ŕ-). Compare Arin bɨqam-álte, biqam-álte, and kekm-elte (“wife”).

### Noun

alat
* woman

#### Synonyms

* alit
* alīt

## Latin
### Verb

alat
* third-person singular present active subjunctive of alō

## Malay
### Etymology

From Arabic آلَة (ʔāla).

### Noun

alat (Jawi spelling الت, plural alat-alat, informal 1st possessive alatku, 2nd possessive alatmu, 3rd possessive alatnya)
* tool

## Northern Kurdish
### Alternative forms

* alet, halat, halet

### Etymology

From Arabic آلَة (ʔāla).

### Noun

alat ?
* tool, implement
* instrument
* device
* apparatus
* appliance

## Serbo-Croatian
### Alternative forms

* hàlāt (Bosnia, poetic)

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ǎlaːt/
* Hyphenation: a‧lat

### Noun

àlāt m (Cyrillic spelling а̀ла̄т, relational adjective àlātnī)
* tool
* instrument

#### Synonyms

* oruđe, pomagalo

#### Derived terms

* àlatka

## Tagalog
### Pronunciation

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

### Etymology 1

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)
* salty
    Synonym: maalat
* (figurative) unlucky
    Synonym: malas

#### Noun

alat (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎᜆ᜔)
* saltiness
* (figurative) bad luck; unluckiness
    Synonym: malas

##### Derived terms

* alat-alatan
* alatan
* maalat
* maalat-alat
* pakaalatan
* tubig-alat

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

alat (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎᜆ᜔)
* (slang, back slang) police officer; cop
    Synonyms: (slang) lespu, (slang) parak, pulis

### Further reading

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

### Anagrams

* Taal, tala, alta, taal, lata