album

See also: Appendix:Variations of "album"

English

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album

Wikipedia

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin album (“blank white writing tablet”), from albus (“white”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈælbəm/, [ˈaɫb̚m̩]

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

English Wikipedia has an article on:

album

Wikipedia

album (plural albums or alba)

1. (historical) In Ancient Rome, a white tablet or register on which the praetor's edicts and other public notices were recorded.
2. A book specially designed to keep photographs, stamps, or autographs.
   • 2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18:

     Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.

3. A collection, especially of literary items
   • 1965, American Philological Association, Transactions and Proceedings (Press of Case Western Reserve University), volume 96, page 364

     This mixture was to be effected either by drawing the juries partly from the senate (of about 300 members), partly from an album of 300 equites (Plut. CG 5.2, Comp. 2.1), or by adlecting 600 equites into the senate and drawing the juries from this new senatorial order (Liv. Per. 60).

4. A phonograph record that is composed of several tracks
5. A jacket or cover for such a phonograph record. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
6. A group of audio recordings, on any medium, intended for distribution as a group.
   • 2012 August 21, Jason Heller, “The Darkness: Hot Cakes (Music Review)”, in The Onion AV Club:

     When the album succeeds, such as on the swaggering, Queen-esque “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us,” it does so on The Darkness’ own terms—that is, as a random ’80s-cliché generator. But with so many tired, lazy callbacks to its own threadbare catalog (including “Love Is Not The Answer,” a watery echo of the epic “I Believe In A Thing Called Love” from 2003’s Permission To Land), Hot Cakes marks the point where The Darkness has stopped cannibalizing the golden age of stadium rock and simply started cannibalizing itself. And, despite Hawkins’ inveterate crotch-grabbing, there was never that much meat there to begin with.

Synonyms

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• (phonograph record): disk, disc, LP, long-playing

Derived terms

• adult album alternative
• album graecum
• album-oriented radio
• album-oriented rock
• album-oriented soul
• album track
• concept album
• live album
• minialbum
• multialbum
• nihil album
• nonalbum
• photo album
• solo album
• split album
• stamp album
• stratum album intermediale
• studio album

Descendants

• →? Arabic: ألبوم (ʔalbūm) (or from French)
• → Burmese: အယ်လဘမ် (aila.bham)
• → Danish: album
• → Irish: albam
• → Japanese: アルバム (arubamu)
• → Korean: 앨범 (aelbeom)
• → Swedish: album
• → Thai: อัลบั้ม (al-bâm)
• → Vietnamese: album
• → Welsh: albwm

Translations

white tablet used in Ancient Rome

Portuguese: álbum (pt) m

book for photographs, stamps, or autographs

Afrikaans: album (af) Albanian: album (sq) m Arabic: أَلْبُوم (ar) m (ʔalbūm) Hijazi Arabic: أَلْبُوم m (albūm) Armenian: ալբոմ (hy) (albom) Azerbaijani: albom (az) Belarusian: альбо́м m (alʹbóm) Bulgarian: албу́м m (albúm) Burmese: အယ်လဘမ် (my) (aila.bham) Chinese: Mandarin: 册子 (zh) (cèzi), 影集 (zh) (yǐngjí), (picture album) 畫冊 / 画册 (zh) (huàcè), (stamp album) 集郵冊 / 集邮册 (zh) (jíyóucè) Czech: album (cs) n Danish: album (da) n Dutch: album (nl) n Esperanto: albumo Finnish: albumi (fi), valokuva-albumi French: album (fr) m Georgian: ალბომი (albomi) German: Album (de) n Greek: άλμπουμ (el) n (álmpoum) Hebrew: אָלְבּוּם (he) m (álbum) Hungarian: album (hu) Icelandic: albúm (is) n Indonesian: album (id) Irish: albam m Italian: album (it) m Japanese: アルバム (ja) (arubamu), 写真帖 (しゃしんちょう, shashinchō) (photo) Kazakh: альбом (albom) Khmer: អាល់ប៊ុម (ʼalbum) Korean: 앨범 (ko) (aelbeom), 사진첩(寫眞帖) (ko) (sajincheop) (photo) Kyrgyz: альбом (ky) (albom) Macedonian: албум m (album) Maori: pukaemi Mongolian: Cyrillic: цомог (mn) (comog) Mongolian: ᠴᠣᠮᠤᠭ (čomug) Norwegian: Bokmål: album (no) n Nynorsk: album n Persian: آلبوم (fa) (âlbom) Polish: album (pl) m Portuguese: álbum (pt) m Russian: альбо́м (ru) m (alʹbóm) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: а̀лбӯм m Roman: àlbūm (sh) m Slovak: album n Slovene: album m Spanish: álbum (es) m Swedish: album (sv) Tagalog: album (tl) Tajik: албом (tg) (albom) Thai: อัลบั้ม (al-bâm) Turkish: albüm (tr) Ukrainian: альбо́м (uk) m (alʹbóm) Uzbek: albom (uz) Vietnamese: an bom, an bum Welsh: albwm m Yiddish: אַלבום m (album), אַלבאָם m (albom)

phonograph record (LP)

Afrikaans: album (af) Albanian: album (sq) m Arabic: أَلْبُوم (ar) m (ʔalbūm) Armenian: ալբոմ (hy) (albom) Azerbaijani: albom (az) Belarusian: альбо́м m (alʹbóm) Bulgarian: албу́м m (albúm) Burmese: အယ်လဘမ် (my) (aila.bham), တေးစီးရီး (te:ci:ri:) Chinese: Cantonese: 唱片 (coeng3 pin3-2) Mandarin: 唱片 (zh) (chàngpiàn, chàngpiān) Czech: album (cs) n Danish: album (da) n Dutch: album (nl) n Esperanto: albumo Faroese: flaga f Finnish: albumi (fi) French: album (fr) m Georgian: ალბომი (albomi) German: Album (de) n Greek: άλμπουμ (el) n (álmpoum) Hebrew: אָלְבּוּם (he) m (álbum) Hindi: एल्बम (elbam) Hungarian: lemez (hu) Icelandic: plata (is) f Indonesian: album (id) Irish: albam m Italian: album (it) m Japanese: アルバム (ja) (arubamu) Kazakh: альбом (albom) Khmer: អាល់ប៊ុម (ʼalbum) Korean: 앨범 (ko) (aelbeom) Kyrgyz: альбом (ky) (albom) Macedonian: албум m (album) Norwegian: Bokmål: album (no) n Nynorsk: album n Persian: آلبوم (fa) (âlbom) Polish: album (pl) m Portuguese: álbum (pt) m Romanian: album (ro) n Russian: альбо́м (ru) m (alʹbóm) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: а̀лбӯм m Roman: àlbūm (sh) m Slovak: album n Slovene: album m Spanish: álbum (es) m Swedish: album (sv) Tajik: албом (tg) (albom) Thai: อัลบั้ม (al-bâm) Ukrainian: альбо́м (uk) m (alʹbóm) Uzbek: albom (uz) Welsh: albwm m

group of audio recordings on any media

Afrikaans: album (af) Albanian: album (sq) m Arabic: أَلْبُوم (ar) m (ʔalbūm) Armenian: ալբոմ (hy) (albom) Azerbaijani: albom (az) Belarusian: альбо́м m (alʹbóm) Bulgarian: албу́м m (albúm) Burmese: အယ်လဘမ် (my) (aila.bham), တေးစီးရီး (te:ci:ri:) Chinese: Cantonese: 唱片 (coeng3 pin3-2), 專輯 / 专辑 (zyun1 cap1) Mandarin: 唱片 (zh) (chàngpiàn, chàngpiān), 專輯 / 专辑 (zh) (zhuānjí) Czech: album (cs) n Danish: album (da) n Dutch: album (nl) n Finnish: albumi (fi) French: album (fr) m Georgian: ალბომი (albomi) German: Album (de) n Hebrew: אָלְבּוּם (he) m (álbum) Hungarian: album (hu), sorlemez Indonesian: album (id) Irish: albam m Japanese: アルバム (ja) (arubamu) Kazakh: альбом (albom) Khmer: អាល់ប៊ុម (ʼalbum) Korean: 앨범 (ko) (aelbeom) Kyrgyz: альбом (ky) (albom) Norwegian: Bokmål: album (no) n Nynorsk: album n Persian: آلبوم (fa) (âlbom) Polish: album (pl) m Portuguese: álbum (pt) m Russian: альбо́м (ru) m (alʹbóm) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: а̀лбӯм m Roman: àlbūm (sh) m Slovak: album n Slovene: album m Spanish: álbum (es) m Swedish: album (sv) Tajik: албом (tg) (albom) Thai: อัลบั้ม (al-bâm) Ukrainian: альбо́м (uk) m (alʹbóm) Uzbek: albom (uz) Welsh: albwm m

Australian Kriol

Etymology

From English help.

Verb

album

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Czech

Czech Wikipedia has an article on:

album

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈalbum]

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

album n

1. album (book)
2. album (group of recordings)

Declension

Declension of album (hard neuter foreign)

	singular	plural
nominative	album	alba
genitive	alba	alb
dative	albu	albům
accusative	album	alba
vocative	album	alba
locative	albu	albech
instrumental	albem	alby

Further reading

• “album”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “album”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “album”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Danish

Danish Wikipedia has an article on:

album

Wikipedia ^da

Etymology

Borrowed from English album.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /albɔm/, [ˈalb̥ɔm]

Noun

album n (singular definite albummet, plural indefinite albummer or album)

1. An album.

Inflection

Declension of album

neuter gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	album	albummet	albummer album	albummerne albummene
genitive	albums	albummets	albummers albums	albummernes albummenes

Synonyms

• musikalbum

Derived terms

• debutalbum
• musikalbum
• opsamlingsalbum

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin album. Later influenced by German Album and English album.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑl.bʏm/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: al‧bum

Noun

album n (plural albums, diminutive albumpje n)

1. album (book of photographs, stamps, or autographs)
2. album (vinyl record or group of audio recordings in any media)

Derived terms

Compound words

• debuutalbum
• muziekalbum
• plantenalbum
• postzegelalbum
• studioalbum
• verzamelalbum

Related terms

• albino

Descendants

• → Indonesian: album

French

French Wikipedia has an article on:

album

Wikipedia ^fr

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /al.bɔm/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Audio (Switzerland (Valais)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Toulouse)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

Noun

album m (plural albums)

1. album (all meanings)

Derived terms

• album live
• album studio

Descendants

• → Esperanto: albumo
• → Greek: άλμπουμ (álmpoum)
• → Russian: альбом (alʹbom)
  • → Armenian: ալբոմ (albom)
  • → Azerbaijani: albom
  • → Georgian: ალბომი (albomi)
  • → Kazakh: альбом (albom)
  • → Kyrgyz: альбом (albom)
  • → Uzbek: albom
  • → Yiddish: אַלבאָם (albom)
    • → Hebrew: אַלְבּוֹם (albóm)
• → Persian: آلبوم (âlbom)
• →? Serbo-Croatian: (or from German)
  • Latin script: album
  • Cyrillic script: албум
  • → Macedonian: албум (album) (or directly from French or German)
• → Turkish: albüm
• → Vietnamese: album

Further reading

• “album”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.