Albanian Definition

ăl-bānē-ən, -bānyən, ôl-
adjective
Of or relating to Albania or its people, language, or culture.
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Of Albania or its people, language, or culture.
Webster's New World

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

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Of, from, or pertaining to Caucasian Albania, to its people or language.
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(central New York) Of or from the city of Albany, New York State.

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noun
A native or inhabitant of Albania.
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A person born or living in Albania.
Webster's New World
A person of Albanian ancestry.
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The language spoken in Albania, constituting a branch of the Indo-European family of languages.
Webster's New World
The Indo-European language of the Albanians, forming an independent branch of the Indo-European language family and having two major dialects, Gheg and Tosk.
American Heritage
pronoun

The languages spoken by the Albanian people, primarily spoken in Albania and Kosovo. (ISO language codes: alb/sqi/sq (Tosk), aln (Gheg), aat (Arvanitika), aae (Arbëresh))

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The extinct Northeast Caucasian language once spoken by these people. Udi language is descended from it.

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Other Word Forms of Albanian

Noun

Singular:
Albanian
Plural:
albanians

Origin of Albanian

  • From Middle French Albanien, from Old French albaneis, from Albanie (“Albania”), from Medieval Latin Albania, from Vulgar Latin *albanus (“Albanian”), from Ancient Greek Ἀλβανοί (Albanoí, “a southern Illyrian tribe”) (compare Old Albanian arbër, arbën 'Albanian')

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  • From (Caucasian) Albania +‎ -ian

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  • Albany +‎ -ian

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Albanian Sentence Examples

  • A large number still speak the Albanian language; many of the older men, and a considerable proportion of the women, even in the neighbourhood of Athens, are ignorant of Greek.

  • After the division of the Roman empire, the lands inhabited by the Albanian race became provinces of the Byzantine empire; northern Albania from Scutari to Berat formed the thema or province of Dyrrachium (Durazzo, Albanian Dourtz), southern Albania and Epirus the thema of Nikopolis.

  • A further fact of great prospective importance was the immigration, after an abortive rising against the Turks, of some 30,000 Slav and Albanian families into Slavonia and southern Hungary, where they were granted by the emperor Leopold a certain autonomy and the recognition of the Orthodox religion.

  • After the Turks were driven from the city in 1878, it was in many respects modernized; but something of its former character is preserved in the ancient Turkish palace, mosque and fountain, the maze of winding alleys and picturesque houses in the older quarters, and, on market days, by the medley of peasant costumes - Bulgarian, Albanian and Rumanian, as well as Servian.

  • On the S., Albanian territory was curtailed owing to the acquisition of the Arta district by Greece (May 1881), the river Arta now forming the frontier.

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Words Starting With

AALALB

Words Ending With

NANIAN

Unscrambles

Albanian

Words Starting With A and Ending With N

Starts With A & Ends With NStarts With AL & Ends With NStarts With A & Ends With AN

Word Length

8 Letter Words8 Letter Words Starting With A8 Letter Words Ending With N