Ala

Ala, ALA, Alaa, or Alae may refer to:

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

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

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

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

People

• Ala (name), includes a list of people with given name or surname Ala or Alaa

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

Other uses

• Acta Linguistica Asiatica, linguistics journal
• 'Alá', the last month of the Bahá'í calendar
• ALA-LC, a set of romanization standards
  • Former airline Aerotransportes Litoral Argentino, merged into Austral Líneas Aéreas
• Ala Mai, 2023 heavy metal album by Polynesian band Shepherds Reign
• Atlas of Living Australia, an online database of Australian plants and animals
• Austral Líneas Aéreas, an Argentine domestic airline

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