# album
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin album (“blank white writing tablet”), from albus (“white”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈælbəm/, [ˈaɫb̚m̩]
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Noun

album (plural albums or alba)
* (historical) In Ancient Rome, a white tablet or register on which the praetor's edicts and other public notices were recorded.
* A book specially designed to keep photographs, stamps, or autographs.
** 2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18:Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.
* A collection, especially of literary items
** 1965, American Philological Association, Transactions and Proceedings (Press of Case Western Reserve University), volume 96, page 364
    This mixture was to be effected either by drawing the juries partly from the senate (of about 300 members), partly from an album of 300 equites (Plut. CG 5.2, Comp. 2.1), or by adlecting 600 equites into the senate and drawing the juries from this new senatorial order (Liv. Per. 60).
* A phonograph record that is composed of several tracks
* A jacket or cover for such a phonograph record. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
* A group of audio recordings, on any medium, intended for distribution as a group.
** 2012 August 21, Jason Heller, “The Darkness: Hot Cakes (Music Review)”, in The Onion AV Club:When the album succeeds, such as on the swaggering, Queen-esque “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us,” it does so on The Darkness’ own terms—that is, as a random ’80s-cliché generator. But with so many tired, lazy callbacks to its own threadbare catalog (including “Love Is Not The Answer,” a watery echo of the epic “I Believe In A Thing Called Love” from 2003’s Permission To Land), Hot Cakes marks the point where The Darkness has stopped cannibalizing the golden age of stadium rock and simply started cannibalizing itself. And, despite Hawkins’ inveterate crotch-grabbing, there was never that much meat there to begin with.

#### Synonyms

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* (phonograph record): disk, disc, LP, long-playing

#### Derived terms

* adult album alternative
* album graecum
* album-oriented radio
* album-oriented rock
* album-oriented soul
* album track
* concept album
* live album
* minialbum
* multialbum
* nihil album
* nonalbum
* photo album
* solo album
* stamp album
* stratum album intermediale
* studio album

#### Translations
## Australian Kriol
### Etymology

From English help.

### Verb

album
* help

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈalbum]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

album n
* album (book)
* album (group of recordings)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “album”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “album”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
* “album”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

## Danish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English album.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /albɔm/, [ˈalb̥ɔm]

### Noun

album n (singular definite albummet, plural indefinite albummer or album)
* An album.

#### Synonyms

* musikalbum

#### Derived terms

* debutalbum
* musikalbum
* opsamlingsalbum

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin album. Later influenced by German Album and English album.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɑl.bʏm/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: al‧bum

### Noun

album n (plural albums, diminutive albumpje n)
* album (book of photographs, stamps, or autographs)
* album (vinyl record or group of audio recordings in any media)

#### Derived terms

* debuutalbum
* muziekalbum
* plantenalbum
* postzegelalbum
* studioalbum
* verzamelalbum

#### Related terms

* albino

#### Descendants

* → Indonesian: album

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /al.bɔm/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

album m (plural albums)
* album (all meanings)

#### Derived terms

* album live
* album studio

#### Descendants

* → Russian: альбом (alʹbom)
** → Armenian: ալբոմ (albom)
** → Azerbaijani: albom
** → Kazakh: альбом (albom)
** → Kyrgyz: альбом (albom)
** → Uzbek: albom
* → Persian: آلبوم (âlbom)
* → Turkish: albüm

### Further reading

* “album”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Hungarian
### Etymology

Borrowed from German Album, from Latin album (“blank white writing tablet”), from albus (“white”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɒlbum]
* Hyphenation: al‧bum
* Rhymes: -um

### Noun

album (plural albumok)
* album
** 1839, the title of a poem by Mihály Vörösmarty, translated by Péter Zollman:
    A Guttenberg-albumbaGutenberg inscription (literally, “Into Gutenberg’s Album”, i.e. intended for a memorial album, pp. 328–9)

#### Derived terms

* albumborító
* bélyegalbum
* fényképalbum
* fotóalbum
* stúdióalbum

### References

* ↑ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

### Further reading

* album in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
* album in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

## Indonesian
### Etymology

From Dutch album, from Latin album.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Indonesian) IPA: /ˈalbum/ [ˈal.bʊm]
* Rhymes: -album
* Syllabification: al‧bum

### Noun

album (plural)
* album (all senses)

#### Derived terms

* album foto
* album konsep
* album live
* album mini
* album solo
* album studio
* lagu album

### Further reading

* “album” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Italian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from German Album, from Latin album amīcōrum (literally “white thing of friends”). Doublet of albo. Cf. English album.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈal.bum/
* Rhymes: -album
* Hyphenation: àl‧bum

### Noun

album m (invariable)
* album (book, LP)
* scrapbook

### References

* ↑ album in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

## Latin
### Etymology

From albus (“white”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈal.bum/, [ˈäɫ̪bʊ̃ˑ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈal.bum/, [ˈälbum]

### Adjective

album
* inflection of albus:
** accusative masculine singular
** nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular

### Noun

album n (genitive albī); second declension
* (politics) a blank tablet on which items were recorded, such as the tablet on which the edicts of the praetor were written
* (by extension) register, list of names
* whiteness, white colour
* sclera, the white of the eye
* albumen, the white of an egg

#### Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

#### Synonyms

* (whiteness): albitūdō, albor
* (albumen of an egg): albāmentum, albūmen

#### Related terms

* albus

#### Descendants

* English: album
* French: album
* German: Album
* Portuguese: álbum
* Romanian: album
* Russian: альбо́м m (alʹbóm)
* Serbo-Croatian: album
* Spanish: álbum, album

### References

* “album”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “album”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* "album", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. (ambiguous) to record in the official tablets (Annales maximi): in album referre (De Or. 2. 12. 52)
* “album”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “album”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin album, from albus (“white”); or English album (in the music sense).

### Noun

album n (definite singular albumet, indefinite plural album or albumer, definite plural albuma or albumene)
* an album (book for a collection of photographs, stamps etc; a collection of recordings on a CD, LP record etc.)

#### Derived terms

* fotoalbum
* frimerkealbum

### References

* “album” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin album, from albus (“white”); or English album (in the music sense).

### Noun

album n (definite singular albumet, indefinite plural album, definite plural albuma)
* an album (as Bokmål above)

#### Derived terms

* fotoalbum
* frimerkealbum

### References

* “album” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from German Album or French album. First attested in 1609.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈal.bum/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -album
* Syllabification: al‧bum

### Noun

album m inan (diminutive albumik, related adjective albumowy)
* (photography) album (book specially designed to keep photographs, stamps, or autographs)
* (music) album (group of audio recordings, on any medium, intended for distribution as a group)
* (Ancient Rome) album (white tablet or register on which the praetor's edicts and other public notices were recorded)
* album, diary, journal (book with various photographical or written entries of memories)
    Synonyms: imiennik, imionnik, pamiętnik, sztambuch
* (somewhat dated) register (list of students at a place of learning)
* (art) album, sketchbook, sketch pad (book or pad with blank pages for sketching)
    Synonym: szkicownik

#### Related terms

* albumowo

#### Collocations

* składankowy album ― a compilation album
* bestsellerowy album ― a bestseller album
* solowy album ― a solo album
* studyjny album ― a studio/full-length album
* cyfrowy album ― a digital album
* thrashowy album ― a thrash album
* metalowy album ― a metal album
* jazzowy album ― a jazz album
* popowy album ― a pop album
* rockowy album ― a rock album
* elektroniczny album ― an electronic album
* klasyczny album ― a classical album
* przebojowy album ― a hit album
* koncertowy album ― a concert album
* nowy album ― a new album
* stary album ― an old album
* nagraniowy album ― a recording album
* premierowy album ― a premiere album
* rodzinny album ― a family album
* ilustrowany album ― an illustrated album
* podwójny/dwupłytowy album ― a double album
* potrójny album ― a triple album
* ulubiony album ― (one's) favorite album
* znakomity album ― an incredible album
* ostatni album ― (someone's) last album
* autorski album ― an author's album
* piękny album ― a beautiful album
* pierwszy album ― (someone's) first album
* drugi album ― (someone's) second album
* trzeci album ― (someone's) third album
* czwarty album ― (someone's) fourth album
* piąty album ― (someone's) fifth album
* szósty album ― (someone's) sixth album
* siódmy album ― (someone's) seventh album
* następny album ― next/upcoming album
* przełomowy album ― a seminal/landmark album
* graficzny album ― a graphical album
* ubiegłoroczny album ― last year's album
* świetny album ― a great album
* gruby album ― a thick album
* kolorowy album ― a colorful album
* rewelacyjny album ― a revolutionary album
* okolicznościowy album ― a commemorative album
* wyprodukowany album ― a produced album
* kiepski album ― a shoddy album
* wspaniały album ― a wonderful album
* legendarny album ― a legendary album
* polski album ― a Polish album
* udany album ― a successful album
* wczesny album ― an early album
* genialny album ― a genius album
* słynny album ― a famous album
* doskonały album ― a perfect album
* muzyczny album ― a musical album
* oryginalny album ― an original album
* ogromny album ― a huge album
* wspólny album ― a collaborative/joint/common album
* fajny album ― a cool/nice album
* album fotograficzny ― a photo(graph) album
* album zatytułowany ― an album titled (something)
* album zdjęciowy ― a picture album
* album koncepcyjny ― a concept album
* album płytowy ― a record/disc album
* album biograficzny ― a biographical album
* album poświęcony czemuś ― an album dedicated to something
* album pamiątkowy ― a commemorative album
* album sygnowany (przez kogoś) ― an album signed by someone
* album zagraniczny ― a foreign album
* promocja albumu ― an album promotion
* okładka albumu ― an album cover
* egzemplarz/kopia albumu ― a copy of an album
* współautor/współautorka albumu ― a coauthor of an album
* reedycja albumu ― a rerelease of an album
* autor/autorla albumu ― an album
* prezentacja albumu ― presentation of an album
* wydawca albumu ― an album's publisher
* stronice/strony/karty/kartki albumu ― pages of an album
* reprint albumu ― an album reprint
* tytuł albumu ― an album's title
* pomysłodawca albumu ― the conceiver an album
* premiera albumu ― an album premiere
* sprzedaż albumu ― sale of an album
* kupno/zakup albumu ― purchase of an album
* producent albumu ― an album producer
* część albumu ― part of an album
* opracowanie albumu ― album development
* sukces albumu ― an album's success
* zawartość albumu ― the contents of an album
* ozdoba albumu ― an album's decoration/adornment
* recenzja albumu ― review of an album
* stosy albumów ― piles of albums
* edycja/nakład albumu ― an album's edition
* dziesiątki albumów ― dozens (lit. tens) of albums
* setki albumów ― hundreds of albums
* tysiące albumów ― thousands of albums
* miliony albumów ― millions of albums
* wersja albumu ― an album's version
* wykonanie albumu ― making of an album
* twórca albumu ― an album's creator
* aukcja albumu ― an album auction
* kontynuacja albumu ― an album's continuation
* dystrybutor albumu ― an album's distributor
* seria albumów ― a series of albums
* publikacja albumu ― an album's publication
* posiadacz/właściciel albumu ― an album owner
* wystawa albumu ― an album exhibit
* ekspozycja albumu ― an album exposition
* końcówka albumu ― the ending of an album
* cykl albumów ― a cycle of albums
* produkcja albumu ― an album's production
* kolekcja/zbiór albumów ― a collection of albums/an album collection
* tom albumu ― an album's volume
* druk albumu ― printing of an album
* odbiór albumu ― reception of an album
* zapowiedź albumu ― announcement of an album
* brzmienie albumu ― the sound of an album
* redaktor albumu ― an album's editor
* rozdział albumu ― an album's chapter
* popularność albumu ― an album's popularity
* lektura albumu ― an album reading
* fragment albumu ― a fragment of an album
* układ albumu ― an album's arrangement
* koncepcja albumu ― the conception/concept of an album
* klimat albumu ― an album's atmosphere/vibe
* kategoria albumów ― an album's category
* bohater albumu ― an album's hero
* numer albumu ― an album's number/the number of an album/an album number
* piosenka albumu ― an album's song
* realizacja albumu ― the production of an album
* sztuka albumu ― an album unit/piece (a single album, used in counting number of copies of an album sold)
* utwór albumu ― a track of an album
* nazwa albumu ― the name of an album
* cena albumu ― the price of an album
* połowa albumu ― half of an album
* ocena albumu ― evaluation of an album
* koniec albumu ― the end of an album
* obraz albumu ― an album's image
* lista albumów ― a list of albums
* charakter albumu ― an album's nature/vibe/character
* album znaczków ― a stamp album
* album malarstwa ― an album of painting
* album fotografii ― an album of photographs
* album zdjęć ― an album of pictures
* album piosenki ― a song's album
* album zespołu ― a band's album
* album roku ― album of the year
* album artysty ― an artist's album
* album wydawnictwa ― a publisher's album
* album grupy ― a group's album
* album muzyki ― an album of music
* album sztuki ― an album of art
* nagrywać/nagrać album ― to reecord an album
* przeglądać/przejrzeć album ― to browse an album
* wydawać/wydać album ― to release/publish an album
* poszukiwać albumu ― to search for an album
* edytować album ― to edit an album
* otwierać/otworzyć album ― to open an album
* zamykać album ― to close an album
* sprzedać album ― to sell an album
* oglądać/obejrzeć album ― to look through/at an album
* szukać albumu ― to look for an album
* zebrać albumy ― to collect albums
* tworzyć/stworzyć album ― to create an album
* przygotowywać/przygotować album ― to get an album ready/to prepare an album
* słuchać albumu ― to listen to an album
* album rozszedł się ― an album spread/sold
* album zawiera ― an album contains
* album nosi tytuł ― an album is called/is titled/bears the title
* album osiągnął (status/jakąś pozycję) ― an album achieved/hit (success/some position)
* album powstaje/powstał ― an album is created/was created
* album przedstawia coś ― an album presents something
* album przyniósł coś ― an album brought something
* wziąć album ― to take an album
* robić/zrobić album ― to make an album
* polecać album ― to recommend an album

### References

* ↑ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “album”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
* ↑ Jadwiga Chotkowska (11.06.2019) “ALBUM”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]

### Further reading

* album in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* album in Polish dictionaries at PWN
* album in PWN's encyclopedia
* Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “album”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
* J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “album”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 22
* Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), “album”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa: PWN

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French album, Latin album. Doublet of alb (“white”), which was inherited.

### Noun

album n (plural albumuri or albume)
* album

### References

* album in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin album (“blank white writing tablet”), from albus (“white”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ǎlbuːm/
* Hyphenation: al‧bum

### Noun

àlbūm m (Cyrillic spelling а̀лбӯм)
* album

#### Declension
## Swedish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin album or English album.

### Noun

album n
* an album, a book specially designed to keep photographs, stamps, or autographs
* an album, a group of audio recordings, on any medium, intended for distribution as a group
    Synonyms: skiva, platta
* a non-periodical comic book (with an ISBN rather than an ISSN), or a larger-format comic book (definitions vary, though they often overlap)
    Synonym: seriealbum

#### Related terms

* albumblad
* debutalbum
* fotoalbum
* frimärksalbum
* samlingsalbum
* seriealbum

#### See also

* serietidning (“comic book”)

### References

* album in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* album in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* album in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

### Further reading

* Seriealbum on the Swedish Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{sv}$
* Seriewikin

## Tagalog
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish álbum or English album, from Latin album (“blank white writing tablet”).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈʔalbum/ [ˈʔal.bʊm]
* Rhymes: -album
* Syllabification: al‧bum

### Noun

album (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎ᜔ᜊᜓᜋ᜔)
* album

#### Related terms

* alba
* albino
* albumen
* albumina

### Further reading

* “album”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
* Cuadrado Muñiz, Adolfo (1972) Hispanismos en el tagalo: diccionario de vocablos de origen español vigentes en esta lengua filipina, Madrid: Oficina de Educación Iberoamericana, page 21

## Vietnamese
### Etymology 1

From French album (“book of photographs”).

### Pronunciation

* (Hà Nội) IPA: [ʔaːn˧˧ ʔɓɔm˧˧]
* (Huế) IPA: [ʔaːŋ˧˧ ʔɓɔm˧˧]
* (Saigon) IPA: [ʔaːŋ˧˧ ʔɓɔm˧˧]
* Phonetic spelling: an bom

#### Noun

album
* album (book of photographs)

### Etymology 2

From English album (“music album”).

### Pronunciation

* (Hà Nội) IPA: [ʔaːn˧˧ ʔɓum˧˧]
* (Huế) IPA: [ʔaːŋ˧˧ ʔɓum˧˧]
* (Saigon) IPA: [ʔaːŋ˧˧ ʔɓʊm˧˧]
* Phonetic spelling: an bum

#### Noun

album
* album (group of audio recordings)