Albanian
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- (abbreviation): Alb.
Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle French Albanien, from Old French Albanie (“Albania”), from Medieval Latin Albania, from Vulgar Latin Albanus (“Albanian”), from Ancient Greek Ἀλβανοί (Albanoí, “a southern Illyrian tribe”). Compare old Albanian endonym arbën, arbër (“Albanian”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ælˈbeɪ.ni.ən/
Audio (General American): (file) - Rhymes: -eɪniən
Adjective
[edit]Albanian (not comparable)
- Of, from, or pertaining to Albania, the Albanian people or the Albanian language.
Translations
[edit]of or pertaining to Albania
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Noun
[edit]Albanian (plural Albanians)
Synonyms
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[edit]person from Albania
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Proper noun
[edit]Albanian
- The languages spoken by the Albanian people, primarily spoken in Albania and Kosovo.
(ISO 639 language codes: sq/sqi/alb (Albanian), als (Tosk), aln (Gheg), aat (Arvanitika), aae (Arbëresh).)
Derived terms
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See also
[edit]- Wiktionary's coverage of Albanian terms
- Appendix:Albanian Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Albanian
Further reading
[edit]- Albanian language on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Albanian–English Dictionary: from Webster's Online Dictionary — the Rosetta Edition.
- ISO 639-1 code sq, ISO 639-3 code sqi (SIL)
- Ethnologue entry for Albanian, sqi , a macrolanguage including:
Etymology 2
[edit]From (Caucasian) Albania + -ian.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]Albanian (not comparable)
- Synonym of Caucasian Albanian
Translations
[edit]Caucasian Albanian — see Caucasian Albanian
Noun
[edit]Albanian (countable and uncountable, plural Albanians)
- Synonym of Caucasian Albanian
- 1613, Samuel Purchas, “[Asia.] Of Armenia Maior, and Georgia: and the neighbouring Nations.”, in Purchas His Pilgrimage. Or Relations of the World and the Religions Observed in All Ages and Places Discouered, from the Creation vnto this Present. […], London: […] William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, […], →OCLC, book IV (Of the Armenians, Medes, Persians, Parthians, Scythians, Tartarians, Chinois, and of Their Religions), page 291:
- The Albanians honored old-age in all men, death in none, accounting it vnlawfull to mention a dead man; with whom they alſo buried his wealth.
Translations
[edit]Caucasian Albanian — see Caucasian Albanian
Etymology 3
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ɔlˈbeɪ.ni.ən/
Audio (General American): (file) - Rhymes: -eɪniən
Adjective
[edit]Albanian (comparative more Albanian, superlative most Albanian)
- (central New York) of or from the city of Albany, New York State
Noun
[edit]Albanian (plural Albanians)
- (central New York) Someone from the city of Albany, New York State.
Further reading
[edit]- Albany, New York on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Etymology 4
[edit]Adjective
[edit]Albanian (comparative more Albanian, superlative most Albanian)
- (historical, poetic or rare) Scottish, especially referring to the Kingdom of Alba, Scotland, between 900 and 1286.
References
[edit]- “Albanian”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- “Albanian”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
Basque
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[edit]Albanian
Finnish
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[edit]Albanian
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