The term alas may refer to:
- Alas, Iran, a village in North Khorasan Province, Iran
- an interjection used to express regret, sorrow, or grief
- in geomorphology, a steep-sided depression formed by the melting of permafrost; it may contain a lake
- in zoology, a wing or winglike body part
- Alas (subdistrict), a subdistrict of the district Manufahi in East Timor
- Alas people, an ethnic group in Aceh, Indonesia
- Alas!, a work of literature by Rhoda Broughton
- AlAs, aluminium arsenide
- Alas (band), progressive metal band from USA
- ALAS (band), a mid 1970s Argentine progressive rock band
- the Spanish writer Leopoldo Alas y Ureña
- Artificial Limb & Appliance Service
- ALAS Foundation (Fundacion América Latina en Acción Solidaria), Movement dedicated to poor children in Latin America
- Alas Chiricanas, a Panamanian airline
- Alaska
- The ALAS missile, a Serbian long-range ground attack missile
- ALAS2 is a protein
Famous quotes containing the word alas:
“Alas, alas for Hamelin!
There came into many a burghers pate
A text which says that Heavens Gate
Opes to the rich at as easy rate
As the needles eye takes a camel in!”
—Robert Browning (18121889)