Ala
Ala, ALA, Alaa or Alae may refer to:
Places
- Ala, Hiiu County, Estonia, a village
- Ala, Valga County, Estonia, a village
- Ala, Alappuzha, Kerala, India, a village
- Ala, Iran, a village in Semnan Province
- Ala, Gotland, Sweden
- Alad, Seydun or Ala, a village in Khuzestan Province, Iran
- Ala, Trentino, Italy, a comune
- Alà dei Sardi, Italy, a comune
- Alabama, a state in the United States
- Alae (Cilicia), a town of ancient Cilicia
Science
- Acetylated lanolin alcohol
- Ala of nose, in human anatomy
- Alae (nematode anatomy)
- Ala (or A), abbreviation for alanine, an α-amino acid
- Alpha lipoic acid, a nutritional supplement
- Alpha-linolenic acid, an omega−3 fatty acid
- δ-aminolevulinic acid or δ-ALA
Mythology and religion
- Ala (demon), a female demon in Serbian mythology
- Ala (Luwian goddess), a Hittite and Luwian goddess
- Ala (Odinani), an Alusi (deity) in the Odinani beliefs of the Igbo people of Nigeria
Military
- USS Ala (YT-139), a US Navy tugboat
- Ala (Roman allied military unit), a Republican-period, largely infantry, formation of 5,400 men
- Ala (Roman cavalry unit), an Imperial-period, purely cavalry, formation of 500 men
- American Legion Auxiliary
- Arab Liberation Army
- Arakan Liberation Army
Organizations
- African Leadership Academy
- Alleanza Liberalpopolare – Autonomie, an Italian political party
- Allgemeine Anzeigen GmbH
- American Latvian Association
- American Leadership Academy
- American Legion Auxiliary
- American Library Association
- American Literature Association
- American Lung Association
- Arizona Lutheran Academy
- Associate of the Library Association
- Association for Laboratory Automation
- Australian Lacrosse Association
- Australian Liberty Alliance, a political party
- Atlas of Living Australia (online database)
Codes
- Åland Islands, ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code
- Åland, ISO 3166-1 country code
- Former NYSE stock symbol of Alcatel; see Alcatel-Lucent
- Almaty International Airport, IATA code
People
Given name
- Ala al-Din Atsiz (died 1214), Sultan of the Ghurid dynasty from 1213 to 1214
- Ala al-Din Ali ibn Shuja al-Din Mohammad , aka Zia al-Din Ali, last Sultan of the Ghurid dynasty, from 1214 to 1215
- Alā ad-Dīn Kayqubād bin Kaykāvūs, aka Kayqubad I (1188–1237), Seljuq Sultan of Rûm
- Ala al-Din Abu al-Hassan Ali ibn Abi-Hazm al-Qurashi al-Dimashq, or Ibn al-Nafis, (1213–1288), Arab Muslim polymath
- Ala ul-Haq (d. 1398), Islamic scholar of Bengal
- Ata-Malik Juvayni (in full: Ala al-Din Ata-ullah) (1226–1283), Persian historian
- Alā ud-Dīn Atsiz, Khwarazm Shah from 1127 until his death in 1156
- Ala ad-Din Tekish, (died 1200), Khwarazm Shah from 1172
- Ala ad-Din Muhammad II of Khwarezm (died 1221), Khwarazm Shah from 1200
- Ala ud din Masud, Sultan of Delhi from 1242 to 1246
- Ala ud-Daula Simnani (1261–1336), Persian Sūfī, writer and teacher
- Ala Al-Kuwaikabi (born 1980), Saudi Arabian former footballer
- Ala Bashir (born 1939), Iraqi painter, sculptor and plastic surgeon
- Ala Boratyn (born 1992), Polish singer also known as simply Ala
- Ala Mândâcanu (born 1954), Moldovan politician and journalist
- Ala Nemerenco (born 1959), Moldovan politician
- Ala Stanford, American physician
- Ala Yaacoubi, Tunisian rapper known as Weld El 15
- Alaa Abd El-Fattah, Egyptian blogger and dissident
- Alaa Abdelnaby, Egyptian-American retired professional basketball player, current broadcaster/analyst
- Alaa Batayneh, Jordanian businessman and politician
- Alaa Gatea, Iraqi footballer
- Alaa Ibrahim, Egyptian footballer
- Alaa Mubarak, Egyptian businessman
- Alaa Murabit, Canadian Physician, Commissioner
- Alaa Al-Sasi (born 1987), Yemeni footballer
- Alaa Al Shbli, Syrian footballer
- Alaa Al-Zahra, Iraqi footballer
Surname
- Efkan Ala (born 1965), Turkish civil servant and government minister
- Hossein Ala' (1882–1964), former prime minister of Iran
Other uses
- Acta Linguistica Asiatica, linguistics journal
- ALA-LC, a set of romanization standards
- Atlas of Living Australia, online data
- Austral Líneas Aéreas, an Argentine domestic airline
- Former airline Aerotransportes Litoral Argentino, merged into Austral Líneas Aéreas
- 'Alá', the last month of the Bahá'í calendar
- Ala Mai, 2023 heavy metal album by Polynesian band Shepherds Rein.
See also
- à la, French for 'in the style/manner of' commonly used in English
- Al-Ala, the 87th chapter of the Qur'an
- Ala Industrial Zone, Iran, a village
- Ala dağları, a mountain range in the Taurus chain, Turkey
- Ala railway station, Pakistan
- Allah, Arabic name for God
- Alaâ, Tunisia, a town in Kairouan Governorate, Tunisia