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أَلْبُوم
album /ʔalˈbuːm/
nounB2#3513 most common
Also: photo album, record/music album
Example sentences
هَذَا أَلْبُوم صُوَر.
This is a photo album.
أُحِبُّ هَذَا الأَلْبُوم كَثِيرًا.
I like this album a lot.
اِشْتَرَيْتُ أَلْبُومَ صُوَرٍ جَدِيدًا لِلْعَائِلَة.
I bought a new photo album for the family.
أَصْدَرَ المُغَنِّي أَلْبُومَهُ الجَدِيدَ الأُسْبُوعَ الْمَاضِي.
The singer released his new album last week.
تَحْتَوِي أَلْبُومَاتُ الصُّوَرِ القَدِيمَةِ عَلَى ذِكْرَيَاتٍ ثَمِينَة.
The old photo albums contain precious memories.
لَاقَى الأَلْبُومُ الجَدِيدُ لِلْفِرْقَةِ نَجَاحًا نَقْدِيًّا وَتِجَارِيًّا وَاسِعًا مُنْذُ إِصْدَارِه.
The band's new album met with wide critical and commercial success since its release.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | أَلْبُومٌ | أَلْبُومَاتٌ |
| Genitive | أَلْبُومٍ | أَلْبُومَاتٍ |
| Accusative | أَلْبُومًا | أَلْبُومَاتٍ |
| Vocative | يَا أَلْبُومُ | يَا أَلْبُومَاتُ |
Word family
أَلْبُومَاتalbums (plural)
أَلْبُوم صُوَرphoto album
أَلْبُوم غِنَائِيّmusic album
أَلْبُوم الزَّفَافwedding album
Etymology
Arabic borrowed أَلْبُوم directly from European languages, likely French or English "album", in the modern era of print and photography. That word goes back to Latin "album", a neuter noun meaning a blank white tablet on which Roman officials posted public notices. Over time "album" came to mean a blank book for collecting things, then a book of photographs, and later a collection of music. Arabic kept the word almost unchanged in sound and spelling.
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