# aubade
## English
### Etymology

* PIE word
* *albʰós
Borrowed from French aubade, from Old French albade, from Old Spanish albada (“musical or poetic composition to be performed in the morning”), from alba (“dawn”), from Vulgar Latin *alba (“dawn; sunrise”), from Latin albus (“bright, clear; white”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *albʰós (“white”).

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /əʊˈbɑːd/, /-ˈbæd/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /oʊˈbɑd/
* Rhymes: -ɑːd, -æd
* Hyphenation: au‧bade

### Noun

aubade (plural aubades)
* (music, poetry) A poem or song evoking or greeting the dawn or early morning.
** 1873 August, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “[I. Tales of a Wayside Inn.] The Student’s Tale. Emma and Eginhard.”, in Aftermath, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co., →OCLC, page 27:And there he lingered till the crowing cock, / The Alectryon of the farmyard and the flock, / Sang his aubade with lusty voice and clear, / To tell the sleeping world that dawn was near.
** 1956, Anthony Burgess, chapter 11, in Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), London: William Heinemann, published 1968, →ISBN, page 155:Alladad Khan woke to the far crying of kampong cocks in the dark. That noise had been the farmyard aubade in the Punjab in his dream.
** (music, specifically) A morning love song, or a song of lovers parting in the morning.
* (music) A concert held at dawn or in the morning, especially outdoors.

#### Coordinate terms

* nocturne
* serenade

#### Translations
### References

* ↑ Compare “aubade, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, December 2021; “aubade, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

### Further reading

* aubade on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from French aubade, from Middle French aubade, from Old Occitan aubada.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˌoːˈbaː.də/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: au‧ba‧de
* Rhymes: -aːdə

### Noun

aubade f (plural aubades)
* a song or musical performance to honour someone, performed in the morning
* (uncommon, chiefly historical) an aubade, a morning love song

#### Related terms

* albino
* album
* albumen

#### Descendants

* → Indonesian: aubade

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Old French albade.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /o.bad/
* Audio:(file)
* Audio (Paris):(file)

### Noun

aubade f (plural aubades)
* aubade (song; poem)
* aubade (love song)

#### Descendants

* → Dutch: aubade
** → Indonesian: aubade
* → English: aubade

### Further reading

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

## Indonesian
### Etymology

From Dutch aubade, from French aubade, from Old French albade.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [au̯ˈbadə]
* Hyphenation: au‧ba‧dê

### Noun

aubadê (uncountable)
* aubade:
** a song or poem greeting or evoking the dawn
** a morning love song; a song of lovers parting in the morning
* a song or musical performance to honour someone, performed in the morning

### Further reading

* “aubade” 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.