alaas

English

alaas (plural alaases)

Rare form of alas (“geological depression”).
- 2015, Hiroki Takakura, Arctic Pastoralist Sakha: Ethnography of Evolution and Microadaptation in Siberia, Government Printing Office, →ISBN, page 89:
  The Sakha have traditionally used alaases to raise cattle and horses, {{..}} they have individual names for the countless alaases in the surrounding taiga […]
- 2023 March 29, John P. Ziker, Jenanne Ferguson, Vladimir Davydov, The Siberian World, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN:
  As a result, an ecosystem of alaas topography, grasslands, and lakes spread in the forests. […] Theoretically speaking, the alaases could have been useful as pasture land for raising reindeer, and it would not be surprising to find that people who herded reindeer for meat used the alaases where a large amount of grass/hay was available.