Ala Explained

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

• , 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