Alba in Scrabble Dictionary

Valid words made from Alba

You can make 14 words from 'alba' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

• 4 letters words from 'alba'
• 3 letters words from 'alba'
• 2 letters words from 'alba'

4 letters words from 'alba'

ALBA 6

BAAL 6

3 letters words from 'alba'

AAL 3	ABA 5
ALA 3	ALB 5
BAA 5	BAL 5
LAB 5

2 letters words from 'alba'

AA 2	AB 4
AL 2	BA 4
LA 2

Definitions and meaning of alba

alba

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ălʹbə, IPA^(key): /ˈæl.bə/

Etymology 1

First attested in 1821; borrowed from Occitan alba, ultimately from Latin albus (“white”); compare Spanish alba (“dawn”).

Noun

alba (plural albas)

1. A type of lyrical poetry, traditionally Provençal, about lovers who must part at dawn.

Further reading

• Alba (poetry) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

First attested in 1848; borrowed from Latin alba (the feminine form of albus (“white”)) in the now-disused species name of binomial nomenclature Rosa alba (it is now considered a hybrid and is accordingly called Rosa × alba).

Noun

alba (plural albas)

1. A white-flowered shrub rose of the hybrid Rosa × alba.
2. A flower of the hybrid Rosa × alba.

Further reading

• List of Rosa species on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 3

First attested in 1859; borrowed from Latin alba, the nominative plural form of album (“blank tablet”), whence the English album.

Noun

alba pl

1. (rare) plural of album
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:alba.

Anagrams

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

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Asturian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin alba, from Latin albus (“white”).

Noun

alba f (plural albes)

1. dawn

Synonyms

• amanecer

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Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan, from Vulgar Latin alba, from Latin albus (“white”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈal.bə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈal.ba/

Noun

alba f (plural albes)

1. dawn
2. the white tunic worn by priests

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Chickasaw

Noun

alba (alienable)

1. a weed
2. an uncultivated plant

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈalba]

Noun

alba

1. genitive singular of album
2. nominative plural of album
3. accusative plural of album
4. vocative plural of album

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Finnish

Noun

alba

1. An alb; a long white gown worn in various Christian ceremonies by the priest or the parishioners, especially in a confirmation by the people who are being confirmed

Declension

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Galician

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin alba, the feminine of albus (“white”). Cognate with Portuguese alva.

Noun

alba f (plural albas)

1. dawn

References

• “alba” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “alba” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Icelandic

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈalpa/
• Homophone: Alba

Noun

alba f (genitive singular ölbu, nominative plural ölbur)

1. alb (priestly robe)

Declension

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Istriot

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin alba, from Latin albus (“white”).

Noun

alba f

1. dawn

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Italian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin alba, from Latin albus (“white”). Compare French aube.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈal.ba/
• Hyphenation: àl‧ba

Noun

alba f (plural albe)

1. dawn, daybreak, break of day

   Synonym: aurora

2. sunrise

   Synonyms: aurora, levar del sole

Derived terms

• albeggiare
• albino

See also

• (times of day) parte del giorno; aurora,‎ alba,‎ mattino/‎mattina,‎ mezzogiorno,‎ pomeriggio,‎ tramonto,‎ crepuscolo,‎ sera,‎ notte,‎ mezzanotte ^{(Category: it:Time) [edit]}

Anagrams

• Baal

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Latin

Pronunciation

• alba: (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈal.ba/, [ˈälbä]
• alba: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈal.ba/, [ˈɑlbɑ]
• albā: (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈal.baː/, [ˈälbäː]
• albā: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈal.ba/, [ˈɑlbɑ]

Etymology 1

From albus (“white”).

Noun

alba f (genitive albae); first declension

1. a white precious stone, the pearl
2. vocative singular of alba

Declension

First-declension noun.

Noun

albā

1. ablative singular of alba

References

• alba in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• alba in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• alba in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• alba in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective 1

alba

1. inflection of albus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Adjective 2

albā

1. ablative feminine singular of albus

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin alba (“white”).

Noun

alba m (definite singular albaen, indefinite plural albaer, definite plural albaene)

1. (Christianity) alb

References

• “alba” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “alba” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin alba (“white”).

Noun

alba m (definite singular albaen, indefinite plural albaar or albaer, definite plural albaane or albaene)

1. (Christianity) alb

References

• “alba” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂elbʰós (“mountain”)

Noun

alba f

1. alpine pasture
2. alp

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈal.ba/

Noun

alba f

1. alb (long white robe worn by ministers at religious ceremonies)

Declension

Further reading

• alba in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin albus (“white”).

Adjective

alba (plural albas, comparable)

1. white

Derived terms

• albino

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Romanian

Etymology

Definite form of albă, from Latin alba, feminine of albus. For the sense of "dawn" or "sunrise", see Vulgar Latin alba, whence also Spanish and Italian alba, French aube, Portuguese alva.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈal.ba/

Adjective

alba

1. definite feminine singular nominative of alb
2. definite feminine singular accusative of alb

Noun

alba f (plural albe)

1. (popular) dawn, daybreak, sunrise

Synonyms

• zori, auroră, răsărit

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Sicilian

Noun

alba f

1. dawn

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Sidamo

Etymology

From Proto-Cushitic. Cognates include Gedeo አልበ (alba).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈalba/
• Hyphenation: al‧ba

Noun

alba m 

1. face
2. front
3. living room

Usage notes

• A traditional Sidamo house may combine the alba with a kitchen. The other room is called the holge.

References

• Kazuhiro Kawachi (2007) A grammar of Sidaama (Sidamo), a Cushitic language of Ethiopia, page 33
• Gizaw Shimelis, editor (2007), “alba”, in Sidaama-Amharic-English dictionary, Addis Ababa: Sidama Information and Culture department

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Spanish

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin alba, from Latin albus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈalba/, [ˈal.β̞a]

Adjective

alba

1. feminine singular of albo

Noun

alba f (plural albas)

1. dawn

   Synonym: amanecer

Usage notes

• The feminine noun alba is like other feminine nouns starting with a stressed a sound in that it takes the definite article el (normally reserved for masculine nouns) in the singular when there is no intervening adjective:

el alba

• However, if an adjective, even one that begins with a stressed a sound such as alta or ancha, intervenes between the article and the noun, the article reverts to la.

Further reading

• “alba” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

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Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish alba.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: al.ba
• IPA^(key): /ˈʔalba/, [ˈʔɐlbɐ]

Noun

alba

1. (Christianity) alb

Source: wiktionary.org

• the white substance of the brain.
  (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)