a la

• à la (less common)
• ala (colloquial)

Borrowed from French à la.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /æ læ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ɑ lɑ/

a la

1. In the style or manner of.
   • 1971, The New York Times, Book review of Burning:

     […] the flaming purification of Diane Johnson's Los Angeles a la Sodom and Gomorrah […]

   • 2024 September 5, Beth Gillette, “24 Fall Hair Colors Every Celebrity Is Asking for Rn”, in Cosmopolitan‎^[1]:

     I’m also not totally ready to get rid of my beachy summer blonde. But instead of scrapping the highlights I worked so hard for, I’m asking my stylist for a root smudge à la Tate McRae above.

• AAL, Aal, aal

a la

1. alternative form of à la

• à la

From French à la (“in the style or manner of”), short for à la mode (“in fashion”), first part from French à (“to, on, in”), from Middle French [Term?], from Old French a (“to, towards, belonging to”), from Latin ad (“to, towards, up to, at”), from Proto-Italic *ad (“toward, to, on, up to, for”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd (“to, at”). Last part from French la (“the”), from Middle French la (“the”), from Old French la (“the”), from Latin illam (“that, those”), which is the accusative singular feminine of ille (“that, those”), from Old Latin olle (“he, that”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ol-no- or *h₂l̥-no-, from *h₂el- (“beyond, other”).

• IPA^(key): /alːa/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -alːa
• Hyphenation: a‧la
• Homophones: Allah, à la

a la

1. alternative spelling of à la

• “a la” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “à_la” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “à la” in Store norske leksikon

a la

1. alternative spelling of à la

• ala, à la

Borrowed from French à la.

• IPA^(key): /aˈla/
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: [please specify syllabification manually]

a la

1. alternative spelling of à la

• “a la”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “a la”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[3] (in Polish)

Calque of French à la.

• IPA^(key): /a la/ [a la]
• Syllabification: a la

a la

1. a la; in the style or manner of
2. (mathematics) to the

   dos a la quinta

   two to the fifth