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Alba

See also: alba, Albà, and albă

English

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈɑlbə/, /ˈælbə/
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Etymology 1

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Romanian Albabor.
English Alba

    Borrowed from Romanian Alba.

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    Alba

    1. A county of Transylvania, Romania.
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    Etymology 2

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    From Scottish Gaelic Alba, ultimately from the same origin as Etymology 1. Related to albino, Albania and Elbe. More at Albany.

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    Alba

    1. (historical, poetic or rare) Scotland, especially referring to the Kingdom of Alba, Scotland, between 900 and 1286.
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    Etymology 3

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    From Spanish Alba, ultimately from the same origin as Etymology 1 and 2.

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    Alba

    1. A female given name from Spanish alba (“dawn”), of modern usage.
    2. A habitational surname from place names of obscure origin.

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    Alba

    1. Abbreviation of Aluminium Bahrain.

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    Albanian

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    Alba f

    1. a female given name

    Asturian

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    Proper noun

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    Alba f

    1. clipping of Alba de Tormes
      • Ana Isabel Fernández Rodríguez et al., El pueblu quirosán: una unidá social in 1991, Cultures: revista asturiana de cultura, volume 1, Academia de la Llingua Asturiana, page 79:
        Les que más poder de convocatoria tienen son les romeríes de dellos centros devocionales (Alba, Trobanieḷḷu), qu’ atraen a xente de tol conceyu y d’otros conceyos vecinos (Ḷḷena, Riosa, Teberga...).
        Those which have the greatest summoning power are the religious festivals of various devotional centres (Alba, Trobanieḷḷu), which attract people from the entire municipality and from other neighbouring municipalities (Ḷḷena, Riosa, Teberga...).

    Catalan

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    Alba f

    1. Alba (any of various places)

    Irish

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    Alternative forms

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    • Albain (originally the dative, now also common in the nominative)

    Etymology

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      From Old Irish Albu,[1] from Proto-Celtic *albiyū.

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      • IPA(key): /ˈal̪ˠəbˠə/, /ˈalˠəbˠə/[2]

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      Alba f (genitive Alban)

      1. (dated) Scotland (a constituent country of the United Kingdom)

      Declension

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      Declension of Alba (fifth declension, no plural)
      bare forms
      singular
      nominative Alba
      vocative a Alba
      genitive Alban
      dative Albain
      forms with the definite article
      singular
      nominative an Alba
      genitive na hAlban
      dative leis an Albain
      don Albain
      • The definite article is used only in the genitive.

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      Mutation

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      Mutated forms of Alba
      radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
      Alba nAlba hAlba not applicable

      Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
      All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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      1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “Albu”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
      2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906), A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 215, page 81

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      Italian

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      Alba ?

      1. synonym of Scozia

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      Latin

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      Alba m sg (genitive Albae); first declension

      1. (Late Latin) alternative form of Albis
        (Can we find and add a quotation of Flavius Vopiscus to this entry?)
      2. The name of a mythical pre-Roman king, Alba Silvius

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      First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

      singular
      nominative Alba
      genitive Albae
      dative Albae
      accusative Albam
      ablative Albā
      vocative Alba
      locative Albae

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      • “Alba”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
      • “Alba”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

      Romanian

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      Localizarea județului Alba în România

      Etymology

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      From alba, definite feminine form of alb.

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      Alba f

      1. a county of Romania
      2. a village in Hudești, Botoșani County, Romania
      3. a village in Izvoarele, Tulcea County, Romania

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      singular only indefinite definite
      nominative-accusative Alba Albaua
      genitive-dative Albale Albalei
      vocative Alba

      See also

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      counties of Romania: județele Românieiedit

      Scottish Gaelic

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      Etymology

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        From Old Irish Albu. Compare with English Albion.

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        Alba f (genitive na h-Alba)

        1. Scotland (a constituent country of the United Kingdom)
          Tha Loch Laomainn ann an Albainn.[1]
          Loch Lomond is in Scotland.

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        Declension

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        Declension of Alba (type Vc feminine noun)
        singular
        nominative Alba
        genitive (na h-)Alba
        (na h-)Albann (archaic)
        dative Alba
        Albainn (archaic)
        vocative Alba

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        Descendants

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        • → English: Alba

        References

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        1. ^ http://www.taic.me.uk/faclmain.htm

        Mutation

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        Mutation of Alba
        radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
        Alba n-Alba h-Alba t-Alba

        Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
        All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

        Spanish

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        Pronunciation

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        • IPA(key): /ˈalba/ [ˈal.β̞a]
        • Rhymes: -alba
        • Syllabification: Al‧ba

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        Alba f

        1. a female given name from alba (“dawn”), of modern usage
        2. a habitational surname from place names of obscure origin.

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        Tagalog

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        Etymology

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        Borrowed from Spanish Alba.

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        Alba (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎ᜔ᜊ)

        1. a surname from Spanish

        Statistics

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        • According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Alba is the 277th most common surname in the Philippines, occurring in 27,607 individuals.

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