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alla

alla is the contraction of all.

Meaning of all

Determiner

all

  1. Every individual or anything of the given class, with no exceptions (the noun or noun phrase denoting the class must be plural or uncountable).
    • All contestants must register for the footrace: we've arranged numbers for them all.
  2. Throughout the whole of (a stated period of time; generally used with units of a day or longer).
    • The store is open all day and all night.
  3. Only; alone; nothing but.
    • He's all talk; he never puts his ideas into practice.
  4. (obsolete) Any.
    • without all remedyc. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...

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Proper noun (1) capitalized: Alla

Alla

  1. A transliteration of the Russian or Ukrainian female given name А́лла (Álla)

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Alla

Alla

  1. (obsolete) Obsolete form of Allah.
    • […] look at these Christians closely, and you will abhor them. They are the worshippers of gold, not the followers of Alla. The poorest Mussulman has more hospitality than their Cadi; more charity than their Imans; more honesty than their Viziers.1819, Henry Tudor Farmer, Imagination; the Maniac's Dream: And Other Poems, page 157

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Questions about alla

What does alla mean?
Alla means a transliteration of the Russian or Ukrainian female given name А́лла (Álla).
What is alla the contraction of?
Alla is the contraction of all.
What part of speech is alla?
Alla is a proper noun.

Words near alla in the dictionary

  1. all-wheel drive
  2. all-wheel drives
  3. all-woman
  4. all-year-round
  5. all-you-can-eat
  6. alla
  7. alla breve
  8. alla cappella
  9. alla marcia
  10. alla prima
  11. Allaah

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Adapted from Wiktionary: alla (page history and authors); Alla (page history and authors); all (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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