Albanian

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English

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Alternative forms

  • (abbreviation): Alb.

Etymology 1

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

Adjective

Albanian (not comparable)

  1. Of, from, or pertaining to Albania, the Albanian people or the Albanian language.
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Noun

Albanian (plural Albanians)

  2. A person from Albania or of Albanian descent.
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Proper noun

Albanian

  2. 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).)
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Etymology 2

From (Caucasian) Albania +‎ -ian.

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Adjective

Albanian (not comparable)

  1. Synonym of Caucasian Albanian
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Noun

Albanian (countable and uncountable, plural Albanians)

  1. Synonym of Caucasian Albanian
    • 1613, Samuel Purchas, “ 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.
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Etymology 3

From Albany +‎ -ian.

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Adjective

Albanian (comparative more Albanian, superlative most Albanian)

  1. (central New York) of or from the city of Albany, New York State

Noun

Albanian (plural Albanians)

  1. (central New York) Someone from the city of Albany, New York State.

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Etymology 4

From Alba +‎ -ian.

Adjective

Albanian (comparative more Albanian, superlative most Albanian)

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

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Basque

Proper noun

Albanian

  1. inessive indefinite of Albania

Finnish

Proper noun

Albanian

  1. genitive singular of Albania

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