Albanian meaning

ăl-bā'nē-ən, -bān'yən, ôl-
Of or relating to Albania or its people, language, or culture.
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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.
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Of Albania or its people, language, or culture.
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A person born or living in Albania.
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The language spoken in Albania, constituting a branch of the Indo-European family of languages.
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Of, from, or pertaining to Albania, the Albanian people or the Albanian language.
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A person from Albania or of Albanian descent.
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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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Of, from, or pertaining to Caucasian Albania, to its people or language.
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An inhabitant of Caucasian Albania. Udi people are descended from them.
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The extinct Northeast Caucasian language once spoken by these people. Udi language is descended from it.
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(central New York) Of or from the city of Albany, New York State.
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(central New York) Someone from the city of Albany, New York State.
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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.

  • 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 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.

  • He sought dominion too beyond the Adriatic: Corfu, Durazzo, and a strip of the Albanian coast became Sicilian possessions as the dowry of Manfred's Greek wife.

  • 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.

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