alb

See also: Alb, ALB, alb., and Alb.

Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of English Albanian.

Symbol

alb

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

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Albanian terms

English

English Wikipedia has an article on:

alb

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• albe, aube (both obsolete)

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ælb/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

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

Noun

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.

Synonyms

• alba

Derived terms

• albed

Related terms

• album
• albumin
• albus
• Albion

Translations

a long white robe worn by priests and other ministers

Catalan: alba (ca) f Dutch: albe (nl) f Finnish: alba (fi) French: aube (fr) f German: Albe (de) f Greek: στιχάριο (el) n (stichário) Hungarian: alba (hu) Icelandic: alba (is) f Indonesian: alba Irish: ailb f Italian: camice (it) m Macedonian: сти́хар m (stíhar), а́лба f (álba) Middle English: awbe Old Portuguese: alva Polish: alba (pl) f Portuguese: alva (pt) f Russian: а́льба (ru) f (álʹba) Spanish: alba (es) f Tagalog: alba (tl)

See also

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

Anagrams

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

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• albu

Etymology

From Latin albus. Compare to Daco-Romanian alb.

Adjective

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

1. white
2. (figurative) clean

Catalan

Etymology

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

Adjective

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

1. (poetic) white

   Synonym: blanc

Derived terms

• albenc

Related terms

• alba
• albedo
• eixalbar

Further reading

• “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

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈalp]

Noun

alb

1. genitive plural of album