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Dictionary: a·las   (ə-lăs') pronunciation
interj.
Used to express sorrow, regret, grief, compassion, or apprehension of danger or evil.

[Middle English, from Old French a las, helas, ah (I am) miserable, from Latin lassus, weary.]


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In a periglacial landscape, a large, steep-sided, flat-bottomed depression which can be several kilometres across. Lakes often occur in alases, which may then develop into pingos. Alases are thermokarst features, and, in Siberia, may take up more than one third of the landscape. It is suggested that they form in a sequence running from the formation of baydjarakhs to duyodas, to alas depressions.

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IN BRIEF: adv. - By bad luck.

pronunciation Time goes, you say? Ah no! Alas, Time stays, we go. — Henry Austin Dobson, Source: The Paradox of Time

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Dansk (Danish)
int. - ak, ak og ve, ve og klage

Nederlands (Dutch)
Alaska, helaas

Français (French)
int. - hélas

Deutsch (German)
abbr. - Alaska
int. - ach, leider

Ελληνική (Greek)
int. - αλίμονο
abbr. - Αλάσκα

Italiano (Italian)
ahimè

Português (Portuguese)
abbr. - Alasca (m) (Geogr.), sintetase (f) ácida aminolevulínica (Quím.)
int. - exclamação (f) de pesar, tristeza ou preocupação

Русский (Russian)
увы

Español (Spanish)
int. - ¡qué pena!, ¡ay de mí!, ¡qué lástima!

Svenska (Swedish)
abbr. - Alaska
int. - ack, tyvärr

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
哎呀, 唉

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
int. - 哎呀, 唉

한국어 (Korean)
int. - 아아, 슬프다!

日本語 (Japanese)
int. - ああ

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(اختصار) نظام تنشيط ألأدب ألآلي (نداء) واحسرتاه : تستعمل للإعراب عن ألأسف أو ألحزن‏

עברית (Hebrew)
int. - ‮חבל! אהה!‬


 
 
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