alba

Meanings

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

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

1. plural of album

1. Synonym of alb.

1. A county of Transylvania, Romania.

1. Scotland, especially referring to the Kingdom of Alba, Scotland, between 900 and 1286.

1. A female given name from Spanish alba (“dawn”), of modern usage.
2. A habitational surname from place names of obscure origin.

1. Abbreviation of Aluminium Bahrain.

Etymology

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