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

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
Ala or Alaa (علاء ‘alā’ ) is an Arabic male given name meaning "elevation, exaltedness, highness, loftiness, sublimity" or "honor and glory, might, power, dignity" or "prestige, greatness, noble, high in rank" or "eminence, glorious, grandeur" or "high in position and status". However, the name could be used as a female given name.


 * Ala al-Din Atsiz (died 1214), Sultan of the Ghurid dynasty from 1213 to 1214
 * Ala al-Din Ali, last Sultan of the Ghurid dynasty, from 1214 to 1215
 * Kayqubad I or Alā ad-Dīn Kayqubād bin Kaykāvūs (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 Al-Sasi (born 1987), Yemeni 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
 * Weld El 15, Tunisian rapper born Ala Yaacoubi
 * Efkan Ala (born 1965), Turkish civil servant and government minister
 * Hossein Ala' (1882–1964), former prime minister of Iran
 * Alaa Abd El-Fatah, Egyptian blogger
 * 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 Shbli, Syrian footballer
 * Alaa Al-Zahra, Iraqi footballer

Alaa (آلاء ālā’ ) is an Arabic female name, meaning "uncountable blessings."

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