album

See also: Album, álbum, àlbum, albüm, and Appendix:Variations of "album"

English

Etymology

From Latin album (“blank white writing tablet”), from albus (“white”).

Noun

album (plural albums or alba)

1. A book specially designed to keep photographs, stamps, or autographs.
   • 2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18:

     Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.

2. A collection, especially of literary items
   • 1965, American Philological Association, Transactions and Proceedings (Press of Case Western Reserve University), volume 96, page 364

     This mixture was to be effected either by drawing the juries partly from the senate (of about 300 members), partly from an album of 300 equites (Plut. CG 5.2, Comp. 2.1), or by adlecting 600 equites into the senate and drawing the juries from this new senatorial order (Liv. Per. 60).

3. A phonograph record that is composed of several tracks
4. A jacket for such a phonograph record; an album cover.
5. A group of audio recordings, on any medium, intended for distribution as a group.
   • 2012 August 21, Jason Heller, “The Darkness: Hot Cakes (Music Review)”, in The Onion AV Club:

     When the album succeeds, such as on the swaggering, Queen-esque “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us,” it does so on The Darkness’ own terms—that is, as a random ’80s-cliché generator. But with so many tired, lazy callbacks to its own threadbare catalog (including “Love Is Not The Answer,” a watery echo of the epic “I Believe In A Thing Called Love” from 2003’s Permission To Land), Hot Cakes marks the point where The Darkness has stopped cannibalizing the golden age of stadium rock and simply started cannibalizing itself. And, despite Hawkins’ inveterate crotch-grabbing, there was never that much meat there to begin with.

Synonyms

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• disk
• disc
• LP
• long-playing

Translations

book for photographs, stamps, or autographs

• Arabic: أَلْبُوم‎ m (ʾalbūm)
• Armenian: ալբոմ (hy) (albom)
• Azeri: albom (az)
• Belarusian: альбо́м m (alʹbóm)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 册子 (zh) (cèzi), 影集 (zh) (yǐngjí), (picture album) 畫冊 (zh), 画册 (zh) (huàcè), (stamp album) 集郵冊 (zh), 集邮册 (zh) (jíyóucè)

• Czech: album (cs) n
• Dutch: album (nl) n
• Esperanto: albumo
• Finnish: albumi (fi), valokuva-albumi
• French: album (fr) m
• German: Album (de) n
• Greek: άλμπουμ (el) n (álmpoum)
• Hebrew: אָלְבּוּם‎ (he) m (álbum)
• Hungarian: album (hu)
• Icelandic: albúm (is) n

• Irish: albam m
• Japanese: アルバム (arubamu)
• Korean: 앨범 (ko) (aelbeom)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: album (no) n

  Nynorsk: album n

• Persian: آلبوم‎ (fa) (âlbom)
• Polish: album (pl) m
• Portuguese: álbum (pt) m
• Russian: альбо́м (ru) m (alʹbóm)
• Spanish: álbum (es) m
• Swedish: album (sv)
• Turkish: albüm (tr)
• Welsh: albwm m
• Yiddish: אַלבום‎ m (album), אַלבאָם‎ m (albom)

phonograph record (LP)

• Arabic: أَلْبُوم‎ m (ʾalbūm)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: please add this translation if you can

  Mandarin: 唱片 (zh) (chàngpiàn, chàngpiān)

• Dutch: album (nl) n
• Finnish: albumi (fi)
• French: album (fr) m
• German: Album (de) n
• Greek: άλμπουμ (el) n (álmpoum)
• Hebrew: אָלְבּוּם‎ (he) m (álbum)
• Irish: albam m

• Japanese: アルバム (arubamu)
• Korean: 앨범 (ko) (aelbeom)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: album (no) n

  Nynorsk: album n

• Polish: album (pl) m
• Portuguese: álbum (pt) m
• Russian: альбо́м (ru) m (alʹbóm)
• Spanish: álbum (es) m
• Swedish: album (sv)
• Welsh: albwm m

group of audio recordings on any media

• Arabic: أَلْبُوم‎ m (ʾalbūm)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: please add this translation if you can

  Mandarin: 唱片 (zh) (chàngpiàn, chàngpiān), 專輯 (zh), 专辑 (zh) (zhuānjí)

• Dutch: album (nl) n
• French: album (fr) m
• German: Album (de) n
• Hebrew: אָלְבּוּם‎ (he) m (álbum)
• Irish: albam m
• Japanese: アルバム (arubamu)
• Korean: 앨범 (ko) (aelbeom)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: album (no) n

  Nynorsk: album n

• Persian: آلبوم‎ (fa) (âlbom)
• Polish: album (pl) m
• Portuguese: álbum (pt) m
• Russian: альбо́м (ru) m (alʹbóm)
• Spanish: álbum (es) m
• Swedish: album (sv)
• Welsh: albwm m

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Czech

Noun

album n

1. album (book)
2. album (group of recordings)

Declension

Declension of album

	singular	plural
nominative	album	alba
genitive	alba	alb
dative	albu	albům
accusative	album	alba
vocative	album	alba
locative	albu	albech
instrumental	albem	alby

Further reading

• album in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• album in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English album.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /albɔm/, [ˈalb̥ɔm]

Noun

album n (singular definite albummet, plural indefinite albummer or album)

1. An album.
2. plural indefinite of album

Inflection

Declension of album

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	album	albummet	albummer album	albummerne albummene
genitive	albums	albummets	albummers albums	albummernes albummenes

Derived terms

• musikalbum
• debutalbum
• opsamlingsalbum

Synonyms

• musikalbum

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

album n (plural albums, diminutive albumpje n)

1. album (book of photographs, stamps, or autographs)
2. album (vinyl record or group of audio recordings in any media)

Derived terms

• debuutalbum

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /al.bɔm/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

album m (plural albums)

1. album (all meanings)

Further reading

• “album” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Hungarian

Etymology

From German Album, from Latin album (“blank white writing tablet”), from albus (“white”) with +‎ -um ending.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɒlbum]
• Hyphenation: al‧bum

Noun

album (plural albumok)

1. album

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	album	albumok
accusative	albumot	albumokat
dative	albumnak	albumoknak
instrumental	albummal	albumokkal
causal-final	albumért	albumokért
translative	albummá	albumokká
terminative	albumig	albumokig
essive-formal	albumként	albumokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	albumban	albumokban
superessive	albumon	albumokon
adessive	albumnál	albumoknál
illative	albumba	albumokba
sublative	albumra	albumokra
allative	albumhoz	albumokhoz
elative	albumból	albumokból
delative	albumról	albumokról
ablative	albumtól	albumoktól

Possessive forms of album
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	albumom	albumaim
2nd person sing.	albumod	albumaid
3rd person sing.	albuma	albumai
1st person plural	albumunk	albumaink
2nd person plural	albumotok	albumaitok
3rd person plural	albumuk	albumaik

Derived terms

• albumborító
• bélyegalbum
• fényképalbum
• fotóalbum
• stúdióalbum

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Italian

Noun

album m (invariable)

1. album (book, LP)
2. scrapbook

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Kriol

Etymology

From English help.

Verb

album

1. help

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Latin

Etymology

From albus (“white”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈal.bum/, [ˈaɫ.bũ]

Adjective

album

1. nominative neuter singular of albus
2. accusative masculine singular of albus
3. accusative neuter singular of albus
4. vocative neuter singular of albus

Noun

album n (genitive albī); second declension

1. whiteness, white color
2. sclera, the white of the eye
3. albumen, the white of an egg
4. (politics) a blank tablet on which items were recorded, such as the tablet on which the edicts of the praetor were written
5. register, list of names

Inflection

Second declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	album	alba
genitive	albī	albōrum
dative	albō	albīs
accusative	album	alba
ablative	albō	albīs
vocative	album	alba

Synonyms

• (whiteness): albitūdō, albor
• (albumen of an egg): albāmentum, albūmen

Related terms

• albus

Descendants

• English: album
• French: album
• Russian: альбо́м m (alʹbóm)

References

• album in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• album in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• du Cange, Charles (1883), “album”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to record in the official tablets (Annales maximi): in album referre (De Or. 2. 12. 52)
    
• album in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• album in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin album, from albus (“white”); or English album (in the music sense).

Noun

album n (definite singular albumet, indefinite plural album or albumer, definite plural albuma or albumene)

1. an album (book for a collection of photographs, stamps etc; a collection of recordings on a CD, LP record etc.)

Derived terms

• fotoalbum
• frimerkealbum

References

• “album” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin album, from albus (“white”); or English album (in the music sense).

Noun

album n (definite singular albumet, indefinite plural album, definite plural albuma)

1. an album (as Bokmål above)

Derived terms

• fotoalbum
• frimerkealbum

References

• “album” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowing from French album, Latin album.

Noun

album n (plural albumuri or albume)

1. album

References

• album in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language), 2004-2017

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Latin album (“blank white writing tablet”), from albus (“white”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ǎlbuːm/
• Hyphenation: al‧bum

Noun

àlbūm m (Cyrillic spelling а̀лбӯм)

1. album

Declension

Declension of album

	singular	plural
nominative	àlbūm	albumi
genitive	albúma	albuma
dative	albumu	albumima
accusative	album	albume
vocative	albume	albumi
locative	albumu	albumima
instrumental	albumom	albumima

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Spanish

Noun

album m (plural albums)

1. (music) album

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Swedish

Noun

album n

1. an album, a book specially designed to keep photographs, stamps, or autographs
2. an album, a group of audio recordings, on any medium, intended for distribution as a group
3. a book of comic strips (an annual collection of daily strips)

Declension

Declension of album
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	album	albumet	album	albumen
Genitive	albums	albumets	albums	albumens

Related terms

• albumblad
• debutalbum
• fotoalbum
• frimärksalbum
• samlingsalbum
• seriealbum

References

• album in Svenska Akademiens Ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)