Alba

See also: alba, Albà, and albă

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑlbə/, /ˈælbə/

Etymology 1

From Romanian Alba.

Proper noun

Alba

1. A county of Transylvania, Romania.

Related terms

• Alba Iulia

 

Translations

county of Romania

• German: Karlsburg
• Hungarian: Fehér (hu)
• Polish: Alba (pl)
• Romanian: Alba
• Russian: А́лба f (Álba)
• Ukrainian: А́лба f (Álba)

Etymology 2

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

Proper noun

Alba

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

Derived terms

• Albanian

Etymology 3

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

Proper noun

Alba

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

Anagrams

• AABL, Ba'al, Baal, Bala, Baʿal, LABA, baal, blaa, laab

Asturian

Proper noun

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈal.βə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈal.bə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈal.ba]

Proper noun

Alba f

1. Alba (any of various places)

Irish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Irish Albu, from Proto-Celtic *albiyū.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈal̪ˠəbˠə/, /ˈalˠəbˠə/

Proper noun

Alba f (genitive Alban)

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

   Synonym: Albain

Declension

Declension of Alba

Fifth declension

Bare forms (no plural for this noun): Case Singular Nominative Alba Vocative a Alba Genitive Alban Dative Albain

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an Alba Genitive na hAlban Dative leis an Albain don Albain

• The definite article is used only in the genitive.

Derived terms

• Alba Nua f (“Nova Scotia”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
Alba	nAlba	hAlba	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “Albu”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Entries containing “Alba” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 81

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈal.ba/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -alba
• Hyphenation: Àl‧ba

Proper noun

Alba ?

1. Synonym of Scozia

Derived terms

• albese

Anagrams

• Baal

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈal.ba/, [ˈäɫ̪bä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈal.ba/, [ˈälbä]

Proper noun

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

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Alba
Genitive	Albae
Dative	Albae
Accusative	Albam
Ablative	Albā
Vocative	Alba
Locative	Albae

References

• “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

Etymology

From alba, definite feminine form of alb.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈalba/

• Audio

  (file)

Proper noun

Alba f

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

Declension

declension of Alba (singular only)

	singular
f gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(o) Alba	Albaua
genitive/dative	(unei) Albale	Albalei
vocative	Alba

See also

• (counties of Romania) județele României; Alba, Arad, Argeș, Bacău, Bihor, Bistrița-Năsăud, Botoșani, Brașov, Brăila, București, Buzău, Caraș-Severin, Călărași, Cluj, Constanța, Covasna, Dâmbovița, Dolj, Galați, Giurgiu, Gorj, Harghita, Hunedoara, Ialomița, Iași, Ilfov, Maramureș, Mehedinți, Mureș, Neamț, Olt, Prahova, Satu Mare, Sălaj, Sibiu, Suceava, Teleorman, Timiș, Tulcea, Vaslui, Vâlcea, Vrancea ^{(Category: ro:Counties of Romania) [edit]}

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish Albu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈal̪ˠəpə/

Proper noun

Alba f (genitive na h-Alba)

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

   Tha Loch Laomainn ann an Albainn.

   Loch Lomond is in Scotland.

Usage notes

• Used with the definite article in the genitive case:

  aibhnichean na h-Alba ― Scotland’s rivers

Declension

Declension of Alba (type Vc feminine noun)

Indefinite
	Singular
Nominative	Alba
Genitive	Alba; Albann (archaic)
Dative	Alba; Albainn (archaic)
Definite
	Singular
Nominative	(an) Alba
Genitive	(na) h-Alba; h-Albann (archaic)
Dative	(an) Alba; Albainn (archaic)
Vocative	(a) Alba

Derived terms

• Alba Nuadh f (“Nova Scotia”)
• BPA m (“Member of the Scottish Parliament”)
• Eaglais na h-Alba f (“the Church of Scotland”)

Descendants

• → English: Alba

See also

• Albion (compare; cognate)

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
Alba	n-Alba	h-Alba	t-Alba
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Spanish

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Alba f

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

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈʔalba/, [ˈʔal.bɐ]
• Rhymes: -alba
• Homophone: alba
• Syllabification: Al‧ba

Proper noun

Alba (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎ᜔ᜊ)

1. a surname from Spanish

Statistics

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