Alba

See also: alba, Albà, and albă

English

Etymology

From Romanian Alba.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑlbə/

Proper noun

Alba

1. A county of Transylvania, Romania.

Translations

county of Romania

• Hungarian: Fehér (hu)

• Romanian: Alba

Anagrams

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

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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...).

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Catalan

Proper noun

Alba f

1. Alba (any of various places)

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Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish Albu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈalˠəbˠə/

Proper noun

Alba f (genitive Alban)

1. (dated) Scotland

   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

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise 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.

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈal.ba/

• Audio

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Proper noun

Alba

1. Synonym of Scozia

Derived terms

• albese

Anagrams

• Baal

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Latin

Pronunciation

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

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?)

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

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Romanian

Etymology

From alba, definite feminine form of alb.

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Proper noun

Alba f

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

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Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish Albu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aɫ̪apə/

Proper noun

Alba f

1. Scotland

   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

Derived terms

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

 

Mutation

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

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈalba/, [ˈal.β̞a]

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.

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Tagalog

Etymology

From Spanish

Proper noun

Alba

1. A surname, from Spanish​.

Statistics

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