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Definitions and meaning of al

al

Translingual

Alternative forms

  • aL

Symbol

al

  1. (metrology) Symbol for attoliter (attolitre), an SI unit of fluid measure equal to 10−18 liters (litres).

Etymology 1

From Hindi आल (āl).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /æl/, /ɑːl/
  • Rhymes: -æl, -ɑːl

Noun

al (usually uncountable, plural als)

  1. The Indian mulberry, Morinda citrifolia, especially as used to make dye.
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:al.
Translations

Etymology 2

Multiple parts of speech

al

  1. Archaic form of all.

References

  • “al”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
  • “al”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
  • "al" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.

Anagrams

  • L. A., L.A., LA, La, La-, La., la, lä

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch al, from Middle Dutch al, from Old Dutch al, from Proto-West Germanic *all.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /al/

Adverb

al

  1. already

Adjective

al (attributive alle, not comparable)

  1. all; every

Conjunction

al

  1. even though, although

Asturian

Contraction

al m sg

  1. Contraction of a el (“to the”).

Azerbaijani

Etymology 1

From Proto-Turkic *āl.

Adjective

al (comparative daha al, superlative ən al)

  1. dark red, blood red, crimson
    Synonym: qırmızı

Etymology 2

Verb

al

  1. second-person singular imperative of almaq

Further reading

  • “al” in Obastan.com.

Basque

Etymology

A grammaticalization of ahal.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /al/ [al]
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Hyphenation: al

Particle

al

  1. Used to form yes/no questions.
    Esan al diozu? ― Did you tell her?

Usage notes

It is placed before the verb.

References

Further reading

  • "al" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], euskaltzaindia.eus
  • “al” in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], euskaltzaindia.eus

Breton

Article

al

  1. the

See also

  • ar
  • an

Catalan

Pronunciation

  • (Central) IPA(key): /əl/, [əɫ]
    • Homophone: el
  • (Valencian) IPA(key): /al/

Contraction

al m sg

  1. Contraction of a el (“at the; to the”).
    Vaig al zoo. ― I go to the zoo.

Usage notes

When el contracts to l' before a vowel, al is not used:

Ens veurem a l'aeroport. ― We'll meet at the airport.

Further reading

  • “al” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Crimean Tatar

Adjective

al

  1. vermeil

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse allr (“all”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /al/, [ˈælˀ]

Pronoun

al (neuter alt, plural alle)

  1. all
  2. any

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch al, from Old Dutch al, from Proto-West Germanic *all.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɑl/
  • Hyphenation: al
  • Rhymes: -ɑl

Determiner

al

  1. all, all of
    Heb je al het bier opgedronken? ― Did you drink all the beer?
    Van Gogh produceerde al zijn werk gedurende een periode van slechts tien jaar. ― Van Gogh produced all of his work during a period of only ten years.
    Alle olie is uit de tanker gelekt. ― All the oil has leaked out of the tanker.
    Niet alle mensen zijn zo gemeen. ― Not all people are that mean.

Inflection

Derived terms

Related terms

  • alles

Descendants

  • Afrikaans: al
  • Jersey Dutch: ā, āl, ālle (from the inflected form)
  • Negerhollands: al, alda
  • → Aukan: ala
  • → Sranan Tongo: ala

Adverb

al

  1. already
    Het is al negen uur. ― It's 9 o'clock already.
  2. yet
    Heb je al een kip gekocht? ― Have you bought a chicken yet?
  3. (obsolete, today only in fixed phrases and compounds) emphatic modifier of adverbs

Derived terms

Related terms

  • als

Descendants

  • Petjo: al

Conjunction

al

  1. even if
    Synonym: ook al
    Al zou ik het willen... ― Even if I wanted to...

Anagrams

  • la

Emilian

Etymology

From Latin ille (“that”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /al/
  • Hyphenation: al

Pronoun

al (personal)

  1. (nominative case) he
  2. (accusative case) him

Alternative forms

  • Becomes l- before a vowel.
  • Becomes -el when acting as an enclitic (after a consonant).
  • Becomes -l when acting as an enclitic (after a vowel).

Related terms

Epigraphic Mayan

Verb

al

  1. to speak

Esperanto

Etymology

Likely from Italian al, Catalan al, and Spanish al.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [al]
  • Audio:
  • Hyphenation: al

Preposition

al

  1. to; toward
  2. to (indicates indirect object)
    Ŝi donis la libron al siaj gepatroj. ― She gave the book to her (own) parents.

Related terms

Gagauz

Adjective

al

  1. vermeil

Galician

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese al, from Vulgar Latin *ale, from Latin aliud, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élyos.

Pronoun

al

  1. (obsolete) everything, the rest
    Synonym: o resto
  2. (obsolete) other, another
    Synonym: outro

Etymology 2

From Leonese al.

Contraction

al

  1. Contraction of a el (“to the (king)”)
Usage notes

Used exclusively preceding the word rei (“king”), when referring to the current King of the land.

References

  • “al” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “al” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.

Haitian Creole

Etymology

Contraction of French ale, from French aller.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /al/

Verb

al

  1. to go
    Synonym: ale

Hani

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a˥˥/

Interjection

al

  1. showing surpise, or admiration

Particle

al

  1. indication completion of action
    zaq al ― finished eating
  2. used with negative sentence

Hungarian

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *ëla (“space, area under something, under(neath), the lower (part)”). (Spelled *ala in Uralonet.) Originally it was a noun; today it is used in compound words, see al-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɒl]

Noun

al

  1. (archaic, rare) lower part of something

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

  • al in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
  • al in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)

Icelandic

Noun

al

  1. indefinite accusative/dative singular of alur

Ido

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /al/

Preposition

al

  1. Contraction of a la (“to the”).

Usage notes

This is optional, you can also use a l'...

Ingrian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *alla. Cognates include Finnish alla and Estonian all.

In the sense "near", semantic loan from Russian под (pod).

Pronunciation

  • (Ala-Laukaa) IPA(key): /ˈɑlːɑ/, [ˈɑɫː]
  • (Soikkola) IPA(key): /ˈɑl/, [ˈɑɫ]
  • (Hevaha) IPA(key): /ˈɑl/, [ˈɑɫ]
  • Rhymes: -ɑlː, -ɑl
  • Hyphenation: al
  • Homophone: alle

Adverb

al

  1. (of location) under, underneath

Postposition

al (+ genitive)

  1. (of location) under, underneath
  2. (of location) near, around

Antonyms

  • (antonym(s) of “under”): pääl (“on top; above”)

References

  • V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎[2], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 135
  • Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 10
  • Arvo Laanest (1997) Isuri keele Hevaha murde sõnastik, Eesti Keele Instituut, page 18
  • Olga I. Konkova, Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014) Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку‎[3], →ISBN, page 33

Interlingua

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /al/

Preposition

al

  1. Contraction of a le (“to the”).

Istriot

Contraction

al

  1. Contraction of a el (“at the”).

Italian

Alternative forms

  • all' (before a vowel)
  • allo (before a cluster of two consonants other than cl, cr, pl, pr, fl, fr, tr)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /al/
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Hyphenation: al

Contraction

al

  1. Contraction of a il (“to the, at the”).

Preposition

al m (feminine all' or alla)

  1. (cooking, in the singular) with (an ingredient)
    Synonym: con
    risotto al pecorino ― rice with pecorino cheese
    risotto allo zafferano ― rice with saffron
    pasta all'aglio ― pasta with garlic

Anagrams

  • -la, La, la, là

K'iche'

Adjective

al

  1. heavy

Ladin

Contraction

al m sg

  1. Contraction of a l (“at/to the”).

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Old High German ald, northern variant of alt, from Proto-Germanic *aldaz. Cognate with German alt, English old, Dutch oud, West Frisian âld.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aːl/
    • Rhymes: -aːl

Adjective

al (masculine alen, neuter aalt, comparative méi al or eeler, superlative am eelsten)

  1. old, aged
    Antonym: jonk
    Vun ale Mënsche kann ee villes léieren. ― There’s a lot to learn from old people.
  2. (of food) stale
    Antonym: frësch
    Dat aalt Brout kënne mer de Vulle ginn. ― We can give the stale bread to the birds.

Declension

Mandinka

Pronoun

al

  1. you (personal pronoun)

See also

Mauritian Creole

Verb

al

  1. Medial form of ale

Michoacán Nahuatl

Etymology

From Proto-Nahuan *aatl, from Proto-Uto-Aztecan *pa.

Noun

al

  1. water

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch al, from Proto-Germanic *allaz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /al/

Determiner

al

  1. all, all of

Adverb

al

  1. completely

Conjunction

al

  1. even though, no matter whether

Descendants

  • Dutch: al
    • Afrikaans: al
  • Limburgish: al

Further reading

  • “al (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
  • “al (III)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
  • “al (V)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
  • Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “al (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
  • Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “al (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page II
  • Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “al (IV)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page IV

Middle English

Adverb

al

  1. Alternative form of all
    • 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue:

Determiner

al

  1. Alternative form of all

Mokilese

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *jalan (“path, road”), from Proto-Austronesian *zalan (“path, way”)

Noun

al (third person singularly possessed aloa, construct alen)

  1. line
  2. road, path, way

Verb

al

  1. (intransitive) to line, draw lines

Derived terms

  • alahl

References

  • Harrison, Sheldon P., Mokilese-English Dictionary, University of Hawaii Press 1977

External links

  • Blust's Austronesian Comparative Dictionary – *zalan

Northern Kurdish

Alternative forms

  • ala m

Etymology

Related to Turkish al (“dark red, crimson”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɑːl/
  • Rhymes: -al

Noun

al f (Arabic spelling ئال)

  1. (war) flag, banner

Declension

References

  • Chyet, Michael L. (2020) “al”, in Ferhenga Birûskî: Kurmanji–English Dictionary (Language Series; 1), volume 1, London: Transnational Press, page 5

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From ala (“to foster, breed”).

Noun

al n (definite singular alet, indefinite plural al, definite plural ala)

  1. nourishing, fostering
  2. a young (farm) animal that one has bred
  3. breeding

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

al

  1. imperative of ala

References

  • “al” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Occitan

Pronunciation

Contraction

al m sg

  1. Contraction of a lo (“to the; at the”).

Oirata

Noun

al

  1. war

Old Dutch

Alternative forms

  • ol

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *all. Cognates include Old High German al and Old Saxon al.

Adjective

al

  1. all, every
  2. whole, entire

Inflection


Adverb

al

  1. completely, wholly

Conjunction

al

  1. even though

Descendants

  • Middle Dutch: al
    • Dutch: al
      • Afrikaans: al
    • Limburgish: al

Further reading

  • “al (II)”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012
  • “al (III)”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012
  • “al (IV)”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *ail, from Proto-Germanic *ailą, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éydʰ-lom, from *h₂eydʰ- (“to burn, kindle”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɑːl/

Noun

āl n

  1. fire

Declension

Derived terms

References

Old French

Alternative forms

  • au

Contraction

al

  1. Contraction of a le (“to the”).

Old High German

Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *all.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /al/

Adjective

al

  1. all
  2. every, each
  3. whole
Descendants
  • Middle High German: al
    • Alemannic German: älli
    • German: all
    • Luxembourgish: all
    • Yiddish: אַלע (ale)

Etymology 2

From Proto-West Germanic *āl, whence also Old English ǣl, Old Norse áll.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aːl/

Noun

āl m

  1. eel
Declension
Descendants
  • Middle High German: āl
    • German: Aal
    • Hunsrik: Ool
    • Luxembourgish: Éil

References

  • Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer

Old Norse

Noun

al

  1. indefinite accusative/dative singular of alr

Verb

al

  1. second-person singular active imperative of ala

Old Saxon

Alternative forms

  • all

Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *all, from Proto-Germanic *allaz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɑl/

Adjective

al

  1. all
  2. entire
  3. any
Declension


Descendants
  • Middle Low German: al, alle
    • German Low German: all, alle (Münsterländisch; Sauerländisch), olle (Paderbornisch)

Adverb

al

  1. entirely, thoroughly
  2. exactly, absolutely, already, quite

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *ēlaz. Cognate with Old English ǣl, Dutch aal, Old High German āl (German Aal), Old Norse áll (Danish and Swedish ål).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɑːl/

Noun

āl m

  1. eel
Declension


Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse áll, from Proto-Germanic *ēlaz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aːl/

Noun

āl m

  1. eel

Declension

Descendants

  • Swedish: ål

Picard

Etymology 1

From Old French.

Pronoun

al

  1. she

Etymology 2

From Old French, from Latin allium.

Noun

al

  1. garlic

Polabian

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Low German al.

Adverb

al

  1. already
    • 1725, Johann Parum Schultze, Die Wendländische Bauernchronik

References

  • Lehr-Spławiński, T., Polański, K. (1962) “al”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka Drzewian połabskich [Etymological Dictionary of the Polabian Drevani Language] (in Polish), numbers 1 (A – ďüzd), Wrocław, Warszawa etc.: Ossolineum, page 17
  • Polański, Kazimierz, James Allen Sehnert (1967) “al”, in Polabian-English Dictionary, The Hague, Paris: Mouton & Co, page 34
  • Olesch, Reinhold (1962) “al”, in Thesaurus Linguae Dravaenopolabicae [Thesaurus of the Drevani language] (in German), volumes 1: A – O, Cologne, Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, →ISBN, page 3

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese al, from Vulgar Latin *ale, from Latin aliud, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élyos.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: al

Pronoun

al

  1. (obsolete) everything, the rest
    Synonym: o resto
  2. (obsolete) other, another
    Synonym: outro

Related terms

  • alheio

Romanian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin illum, from ille.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /al/

Article

al m or n sg (feminine singular a, masculine plural ai, feminine/neuter plural ale)

  1. of (masculine/neuter singular possessive or genitive article)
    el este un prieten al meu ― he is a friend of mine.

See also

  • ăla
  • -l

Saterland Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian all, from Proto-West Germanic *all. Cognates include West Frisian al and Dutch al.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /al/
  • Hyphenation: al
  • Rhymes: -al

Adverb

al

  1. already

References

  • Marron C. Fort (2015) “al”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN

Silesian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Aal.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈal/
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Syllabification: al

Noun

al m animal

  1. eel

Further reading

  • Barbara Podgórska, Adam Podgóski (2008) “al”, in Słownik gwar śląskich [A dictionary of Silesian lects], Katowice: Wydawnictwo KOS, →ISBN, page 25

South Efate

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /al/

Noun

al

  1. Sun

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /al/ [al]
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Syllabification: al

Contraction

al

  1. Contraction of a el (“at the, to the”).

See also

  • del

Further reading

  • “al”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
  • “al” in Diccionario panhispánico de dudas, segunda edición, Real Academia Española, 2023. →ISBN

Anagrams

  • la

Sumau

Noun

al

  1. a tree species of the family Combretaceae, Terminalia impediens

Further reading

  • Coode, M. J. E. (1969) “Four new species of Terminalia L. (Combretaceae) from Melanesia”, in Kew Bulletin, volume 23, number 2, →DOI, page 308

Sumerian

Romanization

al

  1. Romanization of 𒀠 (al)

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish al, from Old Norse ǫlr (compare Icelandic elri, Danish el, Norwegian older), from Proto-Germanic *aluz, *alusō (compare English alder), variant of *alizō, *alisō (compare Dutch els, German Erle), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisos.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɑːl/

Noun

al c

  1. alder (tree)

Declension

Derived terms

  • gråal
  • klibbal

Further reading

  • al in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
  • al in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

Anagrams

  • l:a, la

Tatar

Adjective

al

  1. Latin spelling of ал (al)

Turkish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɑɫ/ [ˈɑɫ̟̊]

Etymology 1

From Ottoman Turkish آل (al), from Proto-Turkic *āl (“red, crimson”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰞 (āl) and akin to Proto-Tungusic *pula (“red”) and Proto-Mongolic *hulaxan (“red”)

Adjective

al

  1. (Old-fashioned) dark red, blood red, crimson
See also
  • kırmızı (“red”)
  • kızıl (“light red”)

Noun

al (definite accusative alı, plural allar)

  1. dark red, blood red, crimson
Declension
See also

References

  • Tokat, Feyza (2014) “On the Common Words in Mongolian and the Turkish Dialects in Turkey”, in The Journal of International Social Research (Uluslararası Sosyal Araştırmalar Dergisi)‎[4], volume 7, number 32, →ISSN, pages 185-198.

Etymology 2

From Proto-Turkic *āl (“trick, deceit; to deceive”).

Noun

al

  1. (dated) trick, trap
    Synonyms: hile, tuzak
Related terms
  • aldanmak
  • aldatmak

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

al

  1. second-person singular imperative of almak

Turkmen

Adjective

al (comparative ?, superlative iň al)

  1. pink

Venetian

Preposition

al

  1. to the
  2. at the

Article

al m sg

  1. (Belluno) Alternative form of el

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *alla; related to Finnish alla.

Postposition

al

  1. under, underneath (stationary location)

Related terms

  • alle
  • alpäi

References

  • Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “под”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎[5], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from German all and English all.

Adjective

al

  1. each
  2. every

Watubela

Noun

al

  1. water

References

  • Papers from the Fourth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics: FOCAL II (1986)
  • Blust, Austronesian Comparative Dictionary

West Flemish

Adverb

al

  1. already

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian all, from Proto-West Germanic *all. Cognate with English all.

Determiner

al

  1. all

Inflection

This determiner needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

  • hielal

Further reading

  • “al”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Adverb

al

  1. already

Further reading

  • “al”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Yola

Pronoun

al

  1. Alternative form of aul

References

  • Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 133

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