# Alas

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Look up ***[alas](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Special:Search/alas)*** in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

***Alas!*** is an [interjection](/source/Interjection) used to express regret, sorrow, or grief.

**Alas** may also refer to:

## Music

- [Alas (American band)](/source/Alas_(American_band)), progressive metal band from USA

- [Alas (Argentine band)](/source/Alas_(Argentine_band)), a mid-1970s Argentine progressive rock band

## Organizations

- [ALAS Foundation](/source/ALAS_Foundation) or *Fundacion América Latina en Acción Solidaria*, an organization dedicated to children living in poverty in Latin America

- [Artificial Limb & Appliance Service](/source/Artificial_Limb_%26_Appliance_Service), an organisation providing support, equipment and rehabilitation to people with limb impairment

## Places

- [Alas (East Timor)](/source/Alas_(East_Timor)), a town in Alas Administrative Post (formerly Subdistrict)

- [Alas (Sumbawa)](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alas_(Sumbawa)&action=edit&redlink=1), a town and administrative district of [Sumbawa Regency](/source/Sumbawa_Regency), on [Sumbawa Island](/source/Sumbawa_Island).

- [Alàs](/source/Al%C3%A0s), a village in the municipality of Alàs i Cerc, Catalonia, Spain

- [Alas, Iran](/source/Alas%2C_Iran), a village in North Khorasan Province, Iran

- [Alas Administrative Post](/source/Alas_Administrative_Post), Manufahi District, East Timor

- [Alas Islands](/source/Alas_Islands), part of Papua New Guinea

- the [Alas Strait](/source/Alas_Strait) in the [Lesser Sunda Islands](/source/Lesser_Sunda_Islands) separates [Lombok](/source/Lombok) from [Sumbawa](/source/Sumbawa) island.

## Science

- [Alas (geography)](/source/Alas_(geography)), a steep-sided depression that is formed by the melting of ice and sometimes contains a lake

- [5-aminolevulinate synthase](/source/5-aminolevulinate_synthase), an enzyme expressed in eukaryotes in two forms: ALAS1 and ALAS2

- [Aluminium arsenide](/source/Aluminium_arsenide) or AlAs, a semiconductor material

## Other

- [Alas people](/source/Alas_people), an ethnic group in Aceh, Indonesia

- [Alas language](/source/Alas_language), an Austronesian language of Sumatra

- [Alas River](/source/Alas_River), a river of Aceh, Indonesia

- *Alas!*, an 1890 work of literature by [Rhoda Broughton](/source/Rhoda_Broughton)

- [ALAS (missile)](/source/ALAS_(missile)), a Serbian long-range ground attack missile

- [Alas (surname)](/source/Alas_(surname))

- [Alternative for Social Advance](/source/Alternative_for_Social_Advance), a Colombian political party

## See also

- [All pages with titles containing *Alas*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search/intitle:%22Alas%22)

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