alat

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

alát (Basahan spelling ᜀᜎᜆ᜔)

1. nonstandard form of halat

From ala +‎ -at.

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

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

1. winged

• “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, 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.

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

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

alat

1. (slang) police officer

   Synonym: polis

Borrowed from Tagalog alat (“saltiness”).

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

alat

1. salted eggs

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

alát

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

alát

1. to make such basket

alat

1. second-person singular present indicative of alkaa

alat

1. nominative plural of ala

• -ltaa, alta, lata

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qalat. Compare Cebuano alat (“big and tall wide-mouth basket”), Hiligaynon alat, and Indonesian alat (“basket”).

• IPA^(key): /ʔaˈlat/ [ʔaˈlɐt]
• Rhymes: -at
• Syllabification: a‧lat

alát (Hanunoo spelling ᜠᜮᜦ᜴)

1. large rattan storage basket

• 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

alát

1. basket

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

Inherited from Malay alat, from Classical Malay الت (alat), from Arabic آلَة (ʔāla).^[1]

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

Borrowed from Minangkabau [Term?]

alat (plural alat-alat)

1. guest
2. feast

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

alat (plural alat-alat)

1. basket

• “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.

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

alat

1. woman

• alit
• alīt

alat

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of alō

From Arabic آلَة (ʔāla).

alat (Jawi spelling الت, plural alat-alat)

1. tool

• alet, halat, halet

From Arabic آلَة (ʔāla).

alat ?

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

• hàlāt (Bosnia, poetic)

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

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

àlāt m inan (Cyrillic spelling а̀ла̄т, relational adjective àlātnī)

1. tool
2. instrument

• oruđe, pomagalo

• àlatka

• “alat”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
• “alat”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

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

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”).

alat (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎᜆ᜔)

1. salty

   Synonym: maalat

2. (figurative) unlucky

   Synonym: malas

alat (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎᜆ᜔)

1. saltiness
2. (figurative) bad luck; unluckiness

   Synonym: malas

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

alat (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎᜆ᜔)

1. (slang, back slang) police officer; cop

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

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

• Taal, tala, alta, taal, lata