Alba

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑlbə/, /ˈælbə/

From Romanian Alba.

Alba

1. A county of Transylvania, Romania.

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

Alba

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

• Albanian

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

Alba

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

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

Alba f

1. a female given name

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...).

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

Alba f

1. Alba (any of various places)

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

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

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

Alba f (genitive Alban)

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

• The definite article is used only in the genitive.

• Alba Nua f (“Nova Scotia”)

• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “Alba”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm

• IPA^(key): /ˈal.ba/

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• Rhymes: -alba
• Hyphenation: Àl‧ba

Alba ?

1. synonym of Scozia

• albese

• Baal

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈaɫ.ba]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈal.ba]

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

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• “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.

From alba, definite feminine form of alb.

• IPA^(key): /ˈalba/

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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

1=Alb

From Old Irish Albu. Compare with English Albion.

• IPA^(key): /ˈal̪ˠapə/

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.

• Used with the definite article in the genitive case:

  aibhnichean na h-Alba ― Scotland’s rivers

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

• → English: Alba

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

Alba f

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

Borrowed from Spanish.

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

Alba (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎ᜔ᜊ)

1. a surname from Spanish

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

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