alban

See also: Alban and albán

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from French albane (in the form alban, respelt after the German Alban), from the Latin albus (“white”) + the French -ane (“-an”).

Pronunciation

Noun

alban (uncountable)

  1. (chemistry, now rare) A white crystalline resinous substance extracted from gutta-percha by the action of alcohol or ether.

Translations

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for alban in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Anagrams

Azerbaijani

Pronunciation
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Noun

alban (definite accusative albanı, plural albanlar)

  1. Albanian
  2. Caucasian Albanian
    Synonym: Qafqaz albanı

Derived terms
  • albanca

Finnish

Noun

alban

  1. genitive singular of alba

Anagrams

Icelandic

Noun

alban

  1. definite nominative singular of alba

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

alban m (definite singular albanen, indefinite plural albanar, definite plural albanane)

  1. (pre-2012) alternative form of albanar

Noun

alban m

  1. (nonstandard) definite singular of alba

Swedish

Etymology

Albanien +‎ -an

Noun

alban c

  1. Albanian; person, chiefly male, from Albania.

Declension
Declension of alban 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative alban albanen albaner albanerna
Genitive albans albanens albaners albanernas
  • Albanien n (“Albania”)
  • albanska c (“Albanian language; Albanian female”)
  • albansk (“Albanian”, adjective)

Uzbek

Noun

alban (plural albanlar)

  1. Albanian

Derived terms
  • albancha

Welsh

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈalban/

Noun

alban m (plural albanau)

  1. (literary) period of three months, quarter of a year
  2. (literary) equinox
    Synonym: cyhydnos
  3. (literary) solstice
    Synonyms: heuldro, heulsaf, troad y rhod

Derived terms

Noun

alban m (uncountable)

  1. (music) element in names of some of the 24 metres in Cerdd Dant

Mutation
Welsh mutation
radicalsoftnasalh-prothesis
alban unchanged unchanged halban
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “alban”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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