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▪ I. Albanian, a.1 and n.1 Hist.|ælˈbeɪnɪən|
[f. med.L. Albania Scotland (Ir. Alba, gen. Alban) + -an.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to Scotland.
B. n. A Scot. So Albanic |ælˈbænɪk| a. [cf. Ir. Albanach, Gael. Albannech], Scottish.
1561Norton & Sackv. Gorboduc v. ii. 137 The proude attemptes of this Albanian prince. 1779A. Butler Lives of Saints (ed. 2) I. 446 St. Gildas the Albanian, or the Scot. 1865T. McLauchlan Early Scott. Ch. xvi. 208 The great convention at Drumceat in Ulster, where the question of Albanic independence was fully discussed.
▪ II. Albanian, a.2 and n.2|ælˈbeɪnɪən|
[f. Albania (see below) + -an.
Albania is the med.L. and general mod. name of the country, which is called Shqipnija by the inhabitants, who call themselves Shqipetars; in med.Gr. ἀλβανία, with variants ἀλβανητία, ἀρβανητία, the inhabitants being called ἀλβάνοι, ἀλ-, ἀρβανῆτες (in Turkish Arnaut).]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to Albania, a country in the western part of the Balkan peninsula, its inhabitants or their language.
1596Z. I. tr. J. de Lavardin's Hist. Scanderbeg, King of Albanie ix. 381 The Albanian souldiers enclining to the peace which had bene so longe demanded. 1788Gibbon Decl. & F. VII. lxviii. 466 In the Albanian war, he [sc. Mahomet II] studied the lessons..of his father. 1813Q. Rev. Oct. 283 The Hungarian and the Albanian languages have some traits of resemblance to each other. 1869H. F. Tozer Highl. Turkey I. 186 The Mahometans are mostly Albanian. 1905M. E. Durham Burden of Balkans x. 227 A young Albanian officer. 1920― in Contemp. Rev. Aug. 210 The long-forbidden Albanian language was printed.
B. n.
1. A native or inhabitant of this country.
1596Z. I. tr. J. de Lavardin's Hist. Scanderbeg, King of Albanie x. 387 Mahomet..might at this time haue bene beaten downe..if Italy & the other Prouinces of Christendom would haue..harkened to the..admonitions of the Hungarians, the Greekes, and the Albanians. 1788Gibbon Decl. & F. VI. lxvii. 457 Under his [sc. Scanderbeg's] conduct, the Albanians were invincible. 1813Q. Rev. Oct. 284 The Albanians speak a language of which a considerable portion is Greek, Latin, German, Sclavonian or Turkish. 1920Contemp. Rev. Aug. 210 Freed from Turkish prohibition,..the cult of the national language became almost a religion to the Albanians.
2. The language of this people (the descendant of Ancient Illyrian).
1813Q. Rev. Oct. 283 The Finnish is said to have some coincidence with the Greek, the Hungarian with the Finnish, and the Albanian with all its neighbours. 1905M. E. Durham Burden of Balkans xii. 298 Books printed in Albanian by the Church press at Skodra. 1920― in Contemp. Rev. Aug. 210 Up till 1908 the foreign schools, where alone Albanian could be taught as a written language, had for political purposes frequently changed the spelling of their school books. Ibid. 212 He [sc. Essad Pasha] could only understand Turkish and Albanian.
▪ III. Albanian, a.3 and n.3 Hist.|ælˈbeɪnɪən|
[L. Albānia.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to the ancient province of Albania on the Caspian Sea.
1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 146 These Dogges growe to an exceeding greate stature, and the next vnto them are the Albanian Dogs. 1788Gibbon Decl. & F. IV. xl. 110 The name of Caspian or Albanian gates, is properly applied to Derbend. 1853Encycl. Brit. II. 444/1 The whole country, formerly called Albania, now goes under the names of Daghistan, Schirwan, and Leghistan... The ancient historians take notice of the Albanian men as tall, strong-bodied, and..of a very graceful appearance. 1948D. Diringer Alphabet ii. v. 327 A potsherd from Old Ganja may contain an Albanian inscription.
B. n.
1. A native or inhabitant of this province.
1579North Plutarch 695 The Albanians lye towards the East, and Mare Caspium. 1781Gibbon Decl. & F. II. xix. 153 The king of the Albanians, who led his independent tribes from the shores of the Caspian. 1948D. Diringer Alphabet ii. v. 327 Many ancient and modern savants dare to connect the Albanians of the Balkans with the Caucasian Albanians.
2. The language of this people.
1948D. Diringer Alphabet ii. v. 327 According to some scholars, Caucasian Albanian still survives in the Udi language. |
