different between amban vs alban

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Manchu ????? (amban).

Noun

amban (plural ambans or ambasa)

1. (now historical) A Chinese official under the Qing Dynasty, especially the ranking official or provincial governor in a semi-independent territory under Chinese rule.
   • 1869, George W. Hayward, ‘Journey from Leh to Yarkand and Kashgar’, Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, vol. XL:

     Regarding the scene before him with the calmness of a stoic, sits the grey-bearded old Ambân in his chair of state, quietly smoking a long pipe, while beside him kneel his weeping daughters, all conscious of their coming fate.

   • 1924, Charles Bell, Tibet Past and Present, Delhi 2000, p. 46:

     In 1846 Messrs. Huc and Gabet, two French Lazarist Fathers, visited Lhasa from the north, and stayed two and a half months, when they were expelled through the influence of the Chinese Amban.

   • 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society 2010, p. 388:

     Although he was received there by a guard of honour of sorts, Elias found the amban, or senior Chinese official, openly hostile.

Translations

Anagrams

• nabam, namba

Yakan

Preposition

amban

1. from

English

Alternative forms

• albane

Etymology

Borrowed from French albane (in the form alban, respelt after the German Alban), from the Latin albus (“white”) + the French -ane (“-an”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?l?b?n, IPA^(key): /?alb?n/, [?albn?]

Noun

alban (uncountable)

1. (chemistry, now rare) A white crystalline resinous substance extracted from gutta-percha by the action of alcohol or ether.

Translations

Anagrams

• Balan, Laban, Nabal, banal, laban, labna, nabal, nabla

Azerbaijani

Noun

alban (definite accusative alban?, plural albanlar)

1. Albanian

Derived terms

• albanca

Finnish

Noun

alban

1. Genitive singular form of alba.

Anagrams

• nabla

Icelandic

Noun

alban

1. definite nominative singular of alba

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Noun

alban m (definite singular albanen, indefinite plural albanar, definite plural albanane)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2012; superseded by albanar

Etymology 2

Noun

alban m

1. (nonstandard) definite singular of alba

Swedish

Etymology

Albanien +? -an

Noun

alban c

1. Albanian; person, chiefly male, from Albania.

Declension

Related terms

• Albanien n (“Albania”)
• albanska c (“Albanian language; Albanian female”)
• albansk (“Albanian”, adjective)

Uzbek

Noun

alban (plural albanlar)

1. Albanian

Derived terms

• albancha

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?alban/

Noun 1

alban m (plural albanau)

1. (literary) period of three months, quarter of a year
2. (literary) equinox

   Synonym: cyhydnos

3. (literary) solstice

   Synonyms: heuldro, heulsaf, troad y rhod

Derived terms

• Alban Arthan
• Alban Cyntefin
• Alban Eilir
• Alban Elfed
• Alban Hefin
• Alban Hyfed

Noun 2

alban m (uncountable)

1. (music) element in names of some of the 24 metres in Cerdd Dant

Related terms

• alfarch
• carsi
• fflamgwr
• hatyr
• macydelgi, macadelgi
• macymwn, macamwn
• rhinart, rhiniart
• titr
• toddf, toddyf
• trwsgl
• wnsach

Mutation

References

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “alban”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies