Albania

See also: albania, Albánia, Albanía, Albània, Albanìa, and Albânia

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English

Etymology 1

From Byzantine Greek Ἀλβανία (Albanía).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ælˈbeɪ.ni.ə/, /ɔːlˈbeɪ.ni.ə/

• Audio (GA)

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• Rhymes: -eɪniə

Proper noun

Albania

2. A country in south-eastern Europe. Official name: Republic of Albania.

Translations

country in south-eastern Europe

• Abkhaz: Арнауыҭтәыла (Ārnāuətṭwəlā)
• Acehnese: Albania
• Adyghe: Албание (Ālbānie)
• Afrikaans: Albanië (af)
• Albanian:

  Gheg: Shqipnia f, Shqipnija f, Shqypnija f

  Tosk: Shqipëri (sq) f, Shqipëria (sq) f (definite)

• Amharic: አልባኒያ (ʾälbaniya)
• Arabic: أَلْبَانِيَا‎ (ar) f (ʾalbāniyā)

  Egyptian Arabic: البانيا‎

• Aragonese: Albania
• Aramaic: ܐܠܒܢܝܐ‎
• Armenian: Ալբանիա (hy) (Albania)
• Aromanian: Arbinishia, Arbinișia
• Assamese: আলবেনিয়া (alobenia)
• Asturian: Albania (ast) f
• Avar: Албания (Albanija)
• Azerbaijani: Albaniya (az)
• Bashkir: Албания (Albaniya)
• Basque: Albania (eu)
• Bavarian: Oibanien
• Belarusian: Алба́нія f (Albánija)
• Bengali: আলবেনিয়া (albeniya)
• Bihari: अल्बानिया
• Bikol Central: Albanya
• Bishnupriya Manipuri: আলবেনিয়া
• Breton: Albania
• Bulgarian: Алба́ния (bg) f (Albánija)
• Burmese: အယ်လ်ဘေးနီးယား (ailbhe:ni:ya:)
• Buryat: Албани (Albani)
• Catalan: Albània (ca) f
• Cebuano: Albanya
• Central Franconian: Albanien
• Chechen: Албани (Albani)
• Cherokee: ᎠᎸᏇᏂᏯ (alvqueniya), ᎠᎵᏇᏂᏯ (aliqueniya)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 阿爾巴尼亞

  Literary Chinese: 阿爾巴尼亞

  Mandarin: 阿爾巴尼亞 (zh), 阿尔巴尼亚 (zh) (Ā'ěrbāníyà)

  Wu: 阿爾巴尼亞

• Chuvash: Албани (Albani)
• Cornish: Albani
• Crimean Tatar: Arnavutlıq
• Czech: Albánie (cs) f
• Danish: Albanien (da)
• Dhivehi: އަލްބޭނިއާ‎ (dv) (albēniā)
• Doteli: अल्बानिया (albāniyā)
• Dutch: Albanië (nl)
• Dzongkha: ཨཱལ་བེ་ནི་ཡ (āl be ni ya)
• Eastern Mari: Албаний (Albanij)
• Emilian: Albanî
• Erzya: Албания (Albanija)
• Esperanto: Albanio, Albanujo
• Estonian: Albaania (et)
• Extremaduran: Albánia
• Faroese: Albania (fo) n
• Finnish: Albania (fi)
• Franco-Provençal: Albanie
• French: Albanie (fr) f
• Friulian: Albanie
• Fula: Albaniya
• Gagauz: Albaniya
• Galician: Albania (gl) f
• Georgian: ალბანეთი (ka) (albaneti)
• German: Albanien (de) n

  Alemannic German: Albanien

• Greek: Αλβανία (el) f (Alvanía)

  Ancient: please add this translation if you can

• Guaraní: Avaña
• Gujarati: અલ્બેનિયા (albeniyā)
• Haitian Creole: Albani
• Hausa: Albaniya
• Hawaiian: ʻAlepania
• Hebrew: אַלְבַּנְיָה‎ (he) (albaniya)
• Hindi: अल्बानिया (hi) (albāniyā)
• Hungarian: Albánia (hu)
• Icelandic: Albanía (is) f
• Ido: Albania (io)
• Igbo: please add this translation if you can
• Indonesian: Albania (id)
• Interlingua: Albania
• Irish: An Albáin f
• Italian: Albania (it) f
• Jamaican Creole: Albienia
• Japanese: アルバニア (ja) (Arubania)
• Kabardian: Албаниэ (Ālbāniă)
• Kabyle: Albanya
• Kalmyk: Арнгудин Орн (Arngudin Orn)
• Kannada: ಅಲ್ಬೇನಿಯ (albēniya)
• Karachay-Balkar: Албания
• Karakalpak: Albaniya
• Kashubian: Albańskô
• Kazakh: Албания (Albanïya)
• Khmer: អាល់បានី (km) (ʾalbaanii)
• Kikuyu: Arũmbĩnia
• Komi-Permyak: Албания (Albanija), Штиприя (Štiprija)
• Komi-Zyrian: Албания (Albanija)
• Konkani: अल्बानिया
• Korean: 알바니아 (Albania)
• Kurdish: Albanya (ku)

  Central Kurdish: ئالبانیا‎ (albanya)

• Kyrgyz: Албания (Albaniya)
• Ladin: please add this translation if you can
• Ladino: please add this translation if you can
• Lao: ອານບານີ (’ān bā nī)
• Latgalian: Albaneja
• Latin: Albania (la) f
• Latvian: Albānija f
• Limburgish: Albanië (li)
• Lithuanian: Albanija (lt) f
• Livvi: Albuanii

• Low German:

  Dutch Low Saxon: Albanië (nds)

  German Low German: Albanien (nds)

• Luxembourgish: Albanien (lb) n
• Macedonian: Албанија (mk) f (Albanija)
• Maithili: अल्बानिया
• Malagasy: Albania (mg)
• Malay: Albania
• Malayalam: അൽബേനിയ (albēniya)
• Maltese: Albanija f
• Manx: Yn Albaan
• Maori: Arapeinia
• Marathi: अल्बेनिया (albeniyā)
• Mari:

  Western Mari: Албани (Albani)

• Mazanderani: آلبانی‎
• Mingrelian: ალბანეთი (albaneti)
• Mirandese: Albánia
• Moksha: Албания (Albanija)
• Mongolian: Албани (Albani)
• Nauruan: Albania, Arbainiya
• Navajo: Dziłigaii bikéyah
• Newari: अल्बानिया (albāniyā)
• Norman: Albannie f (Jersey)
• North Frisian: Albaanien
• Northern Luri: آلبانی‎
• Northern Sami: Albánia
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Albania (no)

  Nynorsk: Albania (nn)

• Novial: Albania
• Occitan: Albània (oc) f
• Old Church Slavonic: Алванїꙗ (Alvanija)
• Oriya: ଆଲବାନିଆ (alôbania)
• Oromo: Albeeniyaa
• Ossetian: Албани (Albani)
• Pali: अल्बानिया
• Parya: Shqip
• Pashto: البانيا‎ f (albānyā)
• Pennsylvania German: Albaani
• Persian: آلبانی‎ (fa) (âlbâni)
• Picard: Albanie
• Piedmontese: Albanìa
• Pitcairn-Norfolk: Elbanya
• Polish: Albania (pl) f
• Pontic Greek: Αλβανία (Albanía)
• Portuguese: Albânia (pt) f
• Quechua: Albanya
• Romagnol: Albanî
• Romani:

  Vlax Romani: Shkiperiya

• Romanian: Albania (ro) f
• Russian: Алба́ния (ru) f (Albánija)
• Rusyn: Алба́нія f (Albánija), Алба́ньско n (Albánʹsko)
• Rwanda-Rundi: Alubaniya
• Samogitian: Albanėjė f
• Sango: Albanïi
• Sanskrit: अल्बेनिया (albeniyā)
• Saterland Frisian: Albanien
• Scots: Albanie
• Scottish Gaelic: Albàinia
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Албанија f

  Roman: Albanija (sh) f

• Sicilian: Albanìa f, Arbanìa f
• Silesian: Albańijo f
• Sinhalese: ඇල්බේනියාව (ælbēniyāva)
• Slovak: Albánsko (sk) n
• Slovene: Albánija (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: Albańska f

  Upper Sorbian: Albanska (hsb)

• Spanish: Albania (es) f
• Sranan Tongo: Albanikondre
• Swahili: please add this translation if you can
• Swazi: I-Alibheniya
• Swedish: Albanien (sv)
• Tagalog: Albanya (tl)
• Tahitian: Arapania
• Tajik: Албания (Albaniya)
• Tarantino: Albanie
• Tatar: Албания (tt) (Albaniya)
• Tetum: Albánia
• Thai: แอลเบเนีย (th) (ɛl-bee-niia)
• Tibetan: ཨལ་པ་ཉི་ཡ། (al pa nyi ya)
• Tok Pisin: Albenia
• Turkish: Arnavutluk (tr)
• Turkmen: Albaniýa
• Udmurt: Албания (Albanija)
• Ukrainian: Алба́нія (uk) f (Albánija)
• Urdu: البانیا‎ (albāniyā)
• Uyghur: ئالبانىيە‎ (ug) (albaniye)
• Uzbek: Albaniya (uz)
• Veps: Albanii
• Vietnamese: An-ba-ni
• Volapük: Lalbanän (vo)
• Votic: please add this translation if you can
• Võro: Albaania
• Waray-Waray: Albanya
• Welsh: Albania (cy) f
• West Flemish: Albanië
• West Frisian: Albaanje (fy)
• Western Panjabi: البانیا‎ (pnb)
• Wolof: Albaani
• Yakut: Албания (Albaniya)
• Yiddish: אַלבאַניע‎ (albanye)
• Yoruba: Albáníà
• Zazaki: (Southern Zazaki) Arnawutiye, Arnawudiye
• Zealandic: Albanië
• Zulu: I-Albaniya

See also

• Appendix:Place names in Albania
• (countries of Europe) country of Europe; Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, North Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Vatican City

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek Ἀλβανία (Albanía).

Proper noun

Albania

2. (historical) Caucasian Albania.

Translations

Caucasian Albania — see Caucasian Albania

Anagrams

• Baalian

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Acehnese

Proper noun

Albania

1. Albania

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Aragonese

Proper noun

Albania

1. Albania

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Asturian

Proper noun

Albania f

1. Albania (country in south-eastern Europe)

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Basque

Proper noun

Albania

1. Albania

Declension

(inanimate proper noun) declension of Albania indefinite absolutive Albania ergative Albaniak dative Albaniari genitive Albaniaren comitative Albaniarekin causative Albaniarengatik benefactive Albaniarentzat instrumental Albaniaz innesive Albaniatan locative Albaniatako allative Albaniatara terminative Albaniataraino directive Albaniatarantz destinative Albaniatarako ablative Albaniatatik partitive Albaniarik prolative Albaniatzat

Related terms

• albaniar
• albaniera

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Finnish

Proper noun

Albania

1. Albania

Declension

Inflection of Albania (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
nominative		Albania	—
genitive		Albanian	—
partitive		Albaniaa	—
illative		Albaniaan	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Albania	—
accusative	nom.	Albania	—
	gen.	Albanian
genitive		Albanian	—
partitive		Albaniaa	—
inessive		Albaniassa	—
elative		Albaniasta	—
illative		Albaniaan	—
adessive		Albanialla	—
ablative		Albanialta	—
allative		Albanialle	—
essive		Albaniana	—
translative		Albaniaksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		Albaniatta	—
comitative		—	—

Anagrams

• albaani, banaali

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Galician

Proper noun

Albania f

1. Albania

Related terms

• albanés

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Ido

Proper noun

Albania

1. Albania

See also

• (countries of Europe) lando di Europa; Albania, Andora, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bielorusia, Belgia, Bosnia e Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Kroatia, Chipro, Chekia, Dania, Estonia, Finlando, Francia, Gruzia, Germania, Grekia, Hungaria, Islando, Irlando, Italia, Kazakstan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lituania, Luxemburgia, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Monako, Montenegro, Nederlando, Norvegia, Polonia, Portugal, Rumania, Rusia, San-Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hispania, Suedia, Suisia, Turkia, Ukraina, Unionita Rejio, Vatikano

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Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from English Albania.

Proper noun

Albania

1. Albania

See also

• (countries of Europe) negara-negara di Eropa; Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belanda, Belarus, Belgia, Bosnia dan Herzegovina, Britania Raya, Bulgaria, Ceko, Denmark, Estonia, Finlandia, Georgia, Hongaria, Irlandia, Islandia, Italia, Jerman, Kazakhstan, Kroasia, Latvia, Listenstaina, Lituania, Luksemburg, Makedonia, Malta, Moldova, Monako, Montenegro, Norwegia, Perancis, Polandia, Portugal, Rumania, Rusia, San Marino, Serbia, Siprus, Slovenia, Slowakia, Spanyol, Swedia, Swiss, Turki, Ukraina, Yunani, Vatikan

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Italian

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Proper noun

Albania f

1. Albania

Derived terms

• albanese

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Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Byzantine Greek Ἀλβανία (Albanía) (or Old Irish Albu, Albain, Alban for the "Scotland" sense).

Proper noun

Albānia f (genitive Albāniae); first declension

1. (medieval, New Latin) Albania
2. (medieval) Scotland

Inflection

First declension.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Albānia
Genitive	Albāniae
Dative	Albāniae
Accusative	Albāniam
Ablative	Albāniā
Vocative	Albānia

Related terms

• albānicus
• albānus

Descendants

• ⇒ Russian: Алба́нія (Albánija) (Pre-reform orthography (1918)), Алба́ния (Albánija)

References

• Albania in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Albania in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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Malay

Etymology

From English Albania, from Byzantine Greek Ἀλβανία (Albanía).

Pronunciation

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /albaniə/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /albania/
• Rhymes: -iə, -jə, -ə

Proper noun

Albania

1. Albania (country in south-eastern Europe)

Adjective

Albania

1. Albanian (Of or pertaining to Albania)

Derived terms

• bahasa Albania
• orang Albania

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Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑl.ˈbɑ.njɑ/

Proper noun

Albania

1. Albania

Related terms

• albaner
• albansk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Albania

1. Albania

Related terms

• albanar
• albansk

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Novial

Proper noun

Albania

1. Albania

Related terms

• albane, albano, albana
• albanum

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /alˈbaɲ.ja/

• Audio

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Proper noun

Albania f

1. Albania

Declension

declension of Albania

	singular	plural
nominative	Albania	Albanie
genitive	Albanii	Albanii
dative	Albanii	Albaniom
accusative	Albanię	Albanie
instrumental	Albanią	Albaniami
locative	Albanii	Albaniach
vocative	Albanio	Albanie

Related terms

• Albańczyk / Albanka
• albański

Further reading

• Albania in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Romanian

Proper noun

Albania f (genitive and dative Albaniei)

1. Albania

   Synonym: Republica Albania

Related terms

• albanez

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /alˈbanja/, [alˈβanja]

Proper noun

Albania f

1. Albania

Derived terms

• albanés

Related terms

• albano

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Tatar

Proper noun

Albania

1. Albania

Declension

    declension of Albania

Nominative	Albania
Genitive	Albanianıñ
Dative	Albaniaga
Accusative	Albanianı
Locative	Albaniada
Ablative	Albaniadan