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• Albanian
  Albanian

  adjective

  pertaining to Albania, its inhabitants, or their language.
• albanian
  albanian

  noun

  the official language of Albania: of uncertain relationship within the Indo-European family, but thought to be related to ancient Illyrian

Albanian

American  

[al-bey-nee-uhn, -beyn-yuhn, awl-] / ælˈbeɪ ni ən, -ˈbeɪn jən, ɔl- /

adjective

1. pertaining to Albania, its inhabitants, or their language.

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noun

Albanians plural

1. a native or inhabitant of Albania or Albany, N.Y.

2. the Indo-European language spoken in Albania and adjacent areas.

albanian British  

/ ælˈbeɪnɪən /

noun

1. the official language of Albania: of uncertain relationship within the Indo-European family, but thought to be related to ancient Illyrian

2. 1. a native, citizen, or inhabitant of Albania

   2. a native speaker of Albanian

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adjective

1. of or relating to Albania, its people, or their language

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• Albanians
  plural

Etymology

Origin of Albanian

First recorded in 1590–1600; Albani(a) + -an

Example Sentences

Hall had an eight-year-old daughter with Albanian model and Real Housewives of Cheshire star, Missé Beqiri, 39.

From BBC • Jun. 16, 2026

In December, the Albanian government grants a "strategic investor" status to a company linked to Kushner, smoothing the project's path.

From Barron's • Jun. 15, 2026

His daughter Ivanka recently made her own “eat cake” headlines over an alleged $1.5-billion project that would convert an uninhabited Albanian island into a luxury resort.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 14, 2026

Thousands of supporters of Rama’s party holding Albanian and European Union flags greeted his speech with ovations.

From Barron's • Jun. 12, 2026

And wouldn’t those secluded Albanian woods have seemed an excellent refuge when, so much later, Voldemort had needed a place to lie low, undisturbed, for ten long years?

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling