Alba

From Romanian Alba.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑlbə/

Alba

1. A county of Transylvania, Romania.

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

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...).

Alba f

1. Alba (any of various places)

Inherited from Old Irish Albu; ultimately from Proto-Celtic *albiyū.

• IPA^(key): /ˈalˠəbˠə/

Alba f (genitive Alban)

1. (dated) Scotland

   Synonym: Albain

• The definite article is used only in the genitive.

• Alba Nua f (“Nova Scotia”)

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “Albu”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Entries containing “Alba” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.

• IPA^(key): /ˈal.ba/

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• Rhymes: -alba
• Hyphenation: Àl‧ba

Alba ?

1. Synonym of Scozia

• albese

• Baal

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈal.ba/, [ˈäɫ̪bä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈal.ba/, [ˈälbä]

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?)

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.

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Alba f

1. A county of Romania.
2. A village in Hudești, Botoșani, Romania
3. A village in Izvoarele, Tulcea, Romania

From Old Irish Albu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈal̪ˠapə/

Alba f

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”)

• Albion (compare; cognate)

• 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.

From Spanish.

Alba

1. a surname from Spanish

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