alb

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alb

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2/B language code for Albanian.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Albanian terms

• albe, aube (both obsolete)

From Middle English aube, awbe, albe, abbe, from Late Old English albe (but later reinforced by Old French aube, Medieval Latin alba), borrowed from Latin alba (as in tunica alba (“white tunic”), vestis alba (“white garment”)), feminine of albus (“white”).

• IPA^(key): /ælb/

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  • Rhymes: -ælb
• (UK, also) IPA^(key): /ɑːlb/
  • Rhymes: -ɑːlb

alb (plural albs)

1. (Christianity, chiefly Anglicanism, Roman Catholicism) A long, white robe worn by priests and other ministers, underneath most of the other vestments.
   • 1978, Jane Gardam, God on the Rocks, Abacus, published 2014, page 131:

     ‘The confidence of the very rich,’ thought Father Carter watching Binkie shaking out albs and cottas and calling rather loudly to the organist.

• alba

• album
• albumin
• albus
• Albion

• epigonation
• epimanikion
• epitrachelion
• maniple
• omophorion
• rhason
• sakkos
• sticharion
• zone

• Lab, BLA, BAL, LAB, bla, Lab., lab, abl.

• albu

From Latin albus. Compare to Daco-Romanian alb.

alb (feminine albe, masculine plural alghi, feminine plural albi)

1. white
2. (figurative) clean

From Latin albus. Only used in poetic/literary contexts or found in some toponyms.

alb (feminine alba, masculine plural albs, feminine plural albes)

1. (poetic) white

   Synonym: blanc

• albenc

• alba
• albedo
• eixalbar

• “alb”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

• IPA^(key): [ˈalp]

alb

1. genitive plural of album

• albu

From Latin albus.^[1]

alb m (plural aľbi, feminine plural albi)

1. white

• Atasanov, Petar (1990) Le mégléno-roumain de nos jours: Une approche linguistique, Hamburg: Buske

• alp

Inherited from Old High German alp, from Proto-West Germanic *albi, from Proto-Germanic *albiz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *albʰós.

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈalb/

alb m (plural elbe or elber)

1. elf
2. friendly spirit, ghostly being, genius, or fairy

• Used through the 13th century.

• German: Alb, Albdruck, Albtraum.

• Marshall Jones Company (1930). Mythology of All Races Series, Volume 2 Eddic, Great Britain: Marshall Jones Company, 1930, pp. 220.

Inherited from Latin albus, from Proto-Italic *alβos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élbʰos, *álbʰos, *albʰós (“white”). Doublet of album.

• IPA^(key): /ˈalb/

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• Rhymes: -alb

alb m or n (feminine singular albă, masculine plural albi, feminine and neuter plural albe)

1. white

   Antonym: negru

2. white (Caucasian)

   Synonym: caucazian

   Antonym: negru

alb m (plural albi, feminine equivalent albă)

1. the color white
2. white person

• albă
• albi
• albeață
• albastru

• “alb”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025

• alv (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Puter)

From Latin albus.

alb m (feminine singular alba, masculine plural albs, feminine plural albas)

1. (Vallader) white

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) nair
• (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) ner
• (Surmiran) neir