"Alba" meaning in Scottish Gaelic

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Proper name

IPA: /ˈal̪ˠapə/
Etymology: From Old Irish Albu. Compare with English Albion. Etymology templates: {{inh|gd|sga|Albu}} Old Irish Albu, {{cog|en|Albion}} English Albion Head templates: {{head|gd|proper noun|genitive|na h-Alba|g=f}} Alba f (genitive na h-Alba) Forms: na h-Alba [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], Alba [nominative, singular], (na h-)Alba [genitive, singular], (na h-)Albann (archaic) [genitive, singular], Alba [dative, singular], Albainn [archaic, dative, singular], Alba [singular, vocative], no-table-tags [table-tags], Alba [error-unrecognized-form], n-Alba [error-unrecognized-form], h-Alba [error-unrecognized-form], t-Alba [error-unrecognized-form]
  1. Scotland (a constituent country of the United Kingdom) Tags: feminine Categories (place): Places in the United Kingdom Derived forms: Alba Nuadh (english: Nova Scotia) [feminine], BPA (english: Member of the Scottish Parliament) [masculine], Eaglais na h-Alba (english: the Church of Scotland) [feminine]

Inflected forms

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  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "Alba",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ English: Alba",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ English: Alba"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gd",
        "2": "sga",
        "3": "Albu"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Irish Albu",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Albion"
      },
      "expansion": "English Albion",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old Irish Albu. Compare with English Albion.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "na h-Alba",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "l-self",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Alba",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "(na h-)Alba",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "(na h-)Albann (archaic)",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Alba",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Albainn",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Alba",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "l",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Alba",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "n-Alba",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "h-Alba",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "t-Alba",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gd",
        "2": "proper noun",
        "3": "genitive",
        "4": "na h-Alba",
        "g": "f"
      },
      "expansion": "Alba f (genitive na h-Alba)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
  "lang_code": "gd",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 11 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Scottish Gaelic entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "gd",
          "name": "Constituent countries of the United Kingdom",
          "orig": "gd:Constituent countries of the United Kingdom",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "gd",
          "name": "Places in the United Kingdom",
          "orig": "gd:Places in the United Kingdom",
          "parents": [
            "Places"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "gd",
          "name": "Scotland",
          "orig": "gd:Scotland",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "english": "Nova Scotia",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Alba Nuadh"
        },
        {
          "english": "Member of the Scottish Parliament",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "BPA"
        },
        {
          "english": "the Church of Scotland",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Eaglais na h-Alba"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_english_offsets": [
            [
              18,
              26
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              25,
              32
            ]
          ],
          "english": "Loch Lomond is in Scotland.",
          "text": "Tha Loch Laomainn ann an Albainn.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Scotland (a constituent country of the United Kingdom)"
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "Scotland",
          "Scotland#English:_Q22"
        ],
        [
          "constituent country",
          "constituent country"
        ],
        [
          "United Kingdom",
          "United Kingdom#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈal̪ˠapə/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Alba"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "english": "Nova Scotia",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Alba Nuadh"
    },
    {
      "english": "Member of the Scottish Parliament",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "BPA"
    },
    {
      "english": "the Church of Scotland",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Eaglais na h-Alba"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "Alba",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ English: Alba",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ English: Alba"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gd",
        "2": "sga",
        "3": "Albu"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Irish Albu",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Albion"
      },
      "expansion": "English Albion",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old Irish Albu. Compare with English Albion.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "na h-Alba",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "l-self",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Alba",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "(na h-)Alba",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "(na h-)Albann (archaic)",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Alba",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Albainn",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Alba",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "l",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Alba",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "n-Alba",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "h-Alba",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "t-Alba",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gd",
        "2": "proper noun",
        "3": "genitive",
        "4": "na h-Alba",
        "g": "f"
      },
      "expansion": "Alba f (genitive na h-Alba)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
  "lang_code": "gd",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Pages with 11 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Scottish Gaelic entries with incorrect language header",
        "Scottish Gaelic feminine nouns",
        "Scottish Gaelic fifth-declension nouns",
        "Scottish Gaelic lemmas",
        "Scottish Gaelic proper nouns",
        "Scottish Gaelic terms derived from Old Irish",
        "Scottish Gaelic terms inherited from Old Irish",
        "Scottish Gaelic terms with usage examples",
        "gd:Constituent countries of the United Kingdom",
        "gd:Places in the United Kingdom",
        "gd:Scotland"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
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            [
              18,
              26
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              25,
              32
            ]
          ],
          "english": "Loch Lomond is in Scotland.",
          "text": "Tha Loch Laomainn ann an Albainn.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Scotland (a constituent country of the United Kingdom)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Scotland",
          "Scotland#English:_Q22"
        ],
        [
          "constituent country",
          "constituent country"
        ],
        [
          "United Kingdom",
          "United Kingdom#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈal̪ˠapə/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Alba"
}

Download raw JSONL data for Alba meaning in Scottish Gaelic (3.0kB)

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