Albert

See also: Albèrt

English

Etymology

From Old English Æþelbeorht, from Proto-West Germanic *Aþalberht, a compound of *aþalaz (“noble”) + *berhtaz (“bright, famous”), or from Old French Albert, from Latin Albertus, itself from the Germanic name. Regardless of the exact route, it is a doublet of Ethelbert. It became popular in 19th-century England due to Queen Victoria’s consort, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.

Pronunciation

(US) IPA^(key): /ˈæl.bɚt/
- Audio (UK) (file)

Proper noun

Albert (countable and uncountable, plural Alberts)

A male given name from the Germanic languages.
- 1862 Alfred Tennyson, The Idylls of the King: Dedication:
  Thou noble Father of her Kings to be - - - / Dear to thy land and ours, a Prince indeed, / Beyond all titles, and a household name, / Hereafter, thro' all times, Albert the Good.
- 1956 Eddie Condon, Thomas Sugrue: We Called it Music: A Generation of Jazz. Peter Davies 1956. page 40:
  Helena was not flattered. "Albert just doesn't appreciate music," she said. They all called me Albert then. I thought it was a fine name; I like elegance.
- 2000, Anne Enright, What Are You Like?, Random House, published 2001, →ISBN, page 85:
  Hogan, Byrne, O'Brien. She stopped at one name. Albert Delahunty — what Catholic in their right mind would call a child Albert?
A surname originating as a patronymic.
A commune in Somme department, Hauts-de-France, France.
A constituency in Belize
A city in Kansas
A rural municipality of Manitoba
A town in New South Wales
A ghost town in Texas
A crater on the Moon

Derived terms

Albert chain
Albert crape, Albert crepe
Albert Lea
Prince Albert

Related terms

pet forms: Al, Bert, Bertie
variants: Ethelbert
female given names: Alberta, Albertina, Albertine

Translations

male given name

Arabic: أَلْبِرْت‎ m (ʾalbert)
Armenian: Ալբերտ (hy) (Albert)
Basque: Alberta
Breton: Alberz
Catalan: Albert (ca)
Chechen: Альберт (Alʲbert)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 艾伯特 (Àibótè)
Czech: Albert (cs) m
Danish: Albert
Dutch: Albert (nl)
Esperanto: Alberto
Estonian: Albert (et)
Finnish: Pertti (fi)
French: Albert (fr) m
Galician: Alberte (gl)
Georgian: ალბერტი (alberṭi)
German: Albert (de) m, Edlerbrecht m
Greek: Άλβέρτος m (Álvértos)
Greenlandic: Aalipak
Hawaiian: ʻAlapaki
Hebrew: אַלְבֶּרט‎ (álbert)
Hungarian: Albert (hu)
Icelandic: Aðalbjartur
Irish: Ailbhe
Italian: Alberto (it)
Japanese: アルバート (Arubāto)
Korean: please add this translation if you can
Latin: Albertus (la) m
Latvian: Alberts m
Lithuanian: Albertas
Maltese: Albert, Bertu
Norwegian: Albert (no)
Old English: Æþelbeorht
Persian: آلبرت‎ (âlbert)
Portuguese: Alberto (pt) m
Russian: Альбе́рт (ru) m (Alʹbért)
Sardinian: Albertu
Scottish Gaelic: Ailbeart
Spanish: Alberto (es) m
Swedish: Albert (sv)
West Frisian: Albert

Noun

Albert (plural Alberts)

Synonym of Albert chain

Anagrams

Balter, Bartel, Bartle, Tabler, balter, bralet, labret, tabler

Azerbaijani

Other scripts
Cyrillic		Алберт
Perso-Arabic		آلبئرت‎

Proper noun

Albert

A transliteration of the English male given name Albert.
- 2018, Daron Acemoğlu and James A. Robinson, Millətlər niyə tənəzzül edir, p. 95:
  Bu ölkələrdə, güman ki, çox sayda potensial Bill Geytslər və bir, ya da iki Albert Eynşteyn var, amma onlar təhsil ala bilmədiyi və həyatda öz yerlərini tapmadığı üçün əkinçiliklə məşğul olmağa, ya da hərbi xidmətə getməyə məcburdurlar.
- 2019 September 6, Xalq Qəzeti‎:
  Azərbaycan paytaxtında Milli Qəhrəman Albert Aqarunovun xatirəsini əbədiləşdirmək məqsədilə heykəli ucaldılır.
  A monument to the memory of National Hero Albert Agarunov is being erected in the capital of Azerbaijan.
- 2020, Nicat Tarverdiyev, İslam və Motivasiya, p. 75:
  Unutmayın ki, bizim hər birimizin ixtiyarında olan zaman Mikelancelo, Leonardo Da Vinçi, Tomas Cefferson, Paster, Helen Keller, Albert Eynşteyn kimi dahi şəxsiyyətlərin sahib olduğu vaxt qədərdir.

Catalan

Pronunciation

(Balearic) IPA^(key): /əlˈbɛɾt/

(Central) IPA^(key): /əlˈbɛrt/

(Valencian) IPA^(key): /alˈbɛɾt/

Proper noun

Albert m

a male given name, equivalent to English Albert

Cebuano

Etymology

From English Albert.

Proper noun

Albert

a male given name from the Germanic languages

Derived terms

Abet

Czech

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈalbɛrt]

Proper noun

Albert m

a male given name, equivalent to English Albert

Declension

Declension of Albert

	singular	plural
nominative	Albert	Albertové, Alberti
genitive	Alberta	Albertů
dative	Albertovi, Albertu	Albertům
accusative	Alberta	Alberty
vocative	Alberte	Albertové, Alberti
locative	Albertovi, Albertu	Albertech
instrumental	Albertem	Alberty

Danish

Proper noun

Albert

a male given name, equivalent to English Albert

Related terms

female given name: Alberte

Dutch

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɑl.bərt/
Audio (file)
Hyphenation: Al‧bert

Proper noun

Albert m

a male given name, equivalent to English Albert

Related terms

Albrecht, Albertus, Bert, Bertus, Adalbert, Adelbert, Aalbert, Aalbrecht, Alprecht, Alpert

Estonian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɑlb̥ert/, [ˈɑlb̥ertˑ]

Proper noun

Albert

a male given name, equivalent to English Albert

Faroese

Proper noun

Albert m

a male given name, equivalent to English Albert

Usage notes

Patronymics

son of Albert: Albertsson
daughter of Albert: Albertsdóttir

Declension

	Singular
	Indefinite
Nominative	Albert
Accusative	Albert
Dative	Alberti
Genitive	Alberts

Finnish

Etymology

From English Albert.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɑlbert/, [ˈɑlbe̞rt̪]
Rhymes: -ɑlbert
Syllabification^(key): Al‧bert

Proper noun

Albert

a male given name, equivalent to English Albert

Usage notes

Chiefly used as a middle name.

Declension

Inflection of Albert (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		Albert	Albertit
genitive		Albertin	Albertien
partitive		Albertia	Alberteja
illative		Albertiin	Alberteihin
		singular	plural
nominative		Albert	Albertit
accusative	nom.	Albert	Albertit
accusative	gen.	Albertin	Albertit
genitive		Albertin	Albertien
partitive		Albertia	Alberteja
inessive		Albertissa	Alberteissa
elative		Albertista	Alberteista
illative		Albertiin	Alberteihin
adessive		Albertilla	Alberteilla
ablative		Albertilta	Alberteilta
allative		Albertille	Alberteille
essive		Albertina	Alberteina
translative		Albertiksi	Alberteiksi
instructive		—	Albertein
abessive		Albertitta	Alberteitta
comitative		—	Alberteineen

Possessive forms of Albert (type risti)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	Albertini	Albertimme
2nd person	Albertisi	Albertinne
3rd person	Albertinsa

Related terms

Alpo, Pertti

French

Alternative forms

Aubert (rare)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /al.bɛʁ/
Audio (Paris) (file)
Audio (file)

Proper noun

Albert m

a male given name, equivalent to English Albert
a surname originating as a patronymic

Related terms

pet forms: Bébert, Bertin
feminine forms: Alberte, Albertine

Anagrams

tabler

German

Etymology

Contraction of Adalbert, from Old High German adal (“noble”) + beraht (“bright”).

Pronunciation

Audio (file)

Proper noun

Albert m (proper noun, strong, genitive Alberts)

a male given name

Related terms

Albrecht, Adalbert, Adelbert, Bert, Brecht, Albertus

Descendants

Transliterations

Japanese: アルベルト (Aruberuto)

Hungarian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈɒlbɛrt]
Hyphenation: Al‧bert
Rhymes: -ɛrt

Proper noun

Albert

a male given name, equivalent to English Albert

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	Albert	Albertek
accusative	Albertet	Alberteket
dative	Albertnek	Alberteknek
instrumental	Alberttel	Albertekkel
causal-final	Albertért	Albertekért
translative	Albertté	Albertekké
terminative	Albertig	Albertekig
essive-formal	Albertként	Albertekként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Albertben	Albertekben
superessive	Alberten	Alberteken
adessive	Albertnél	Alberteknél
illative	Albertbe	Albertekbe
sublative	Albertre	Albertekre
allative	Alberthez	Albertekhez
elative	Albertből	Albertekből
delative	Albertről	Albertekről
ablative	Alberttől	Albertektől
non-attributive possessive - singular	Alberté	Alberteké
non-attributive possessive - plural	Albertéi	Albertekéi

Possessive forms of Albert
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Albertem	Albertjeim
2nd person sing.	Alberted	Albertjeid
3rd person sing.	Albertje	Albertjei
1st person plural	Albertünk	Albertjeink
2nd person plural	Albertetek	Albertjeitek
3rd person plural	Albertjük	Albertjeik

Icelandic

Proper noun

Albert m

a male given name, equivalent to English Albert

Declension

declension of Albert

	indefinite
m-s1	singular
nominative	Albert
accusative	Albert
dative	Albert
genitive	Alberts

Norwegian

Proper noun

Albert

a male given name, equivalent to English Albert

Polish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈal.bɛrt/
Audio (file)
Rhymes: -albɛrt
Syllabification: Al‧bert

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin Albertus, from Proto-West Germanic *Aþalberht.

Proper noun

Albert m pers (feminine Alberta)

a male given name, equivalent to English Albert

Declension

Declension of Albert

	singular	plural
nominative	Albert	Albertowie
genitive	Alberta	Albertów
dative	Albertowi	Albertom
accusative	Alberta	Albertów
instrumental	Albertem	Albertami
locative	Albercie	Albertach
vocative	Albercie	Albertowie

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Proper noun

Albert f

genitive plural of Alberta

Romanian

Etymology

From German Albert.

Proper noun

Albert m (genitive/dative lui Albert)

a surname from German

References

Iordan, Iorgu (1983) Dicționar al numelor de familie românești [A Dictionary of Romanian Family Names]‎, Bucharest: Editura Științifică și Enciclopedică

Slovak

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈalbert]

Proper noun

Albert m (genitive singular Alberta, nominative plural Albertovia, declension pattern of chlap)

a male given name, equivalent to English Albert

Declension

Declension of Albert

	singular	plural
nominative	Albert	Albertovia
genitive	Alberta	Albertov
dative	Albertovi	Albertom
accusative	Alberta	Albertov
locative	Albertovi	Albertoch
instrumental	Albertom	Albertmi

Swedish

Etymology

First recorded in Sweden in 1283. Cognate with German and English Albert.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /¹albæʈ/

Proper noun

Albert c (genitive Alberts)

a male given name, equivalent to English Albert

Related terms

pet form: Abbe
female given name: Albertina

Albert

English

Etymology

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

Noun

Anagrams

Azerbaijani

Proper noun

Catalan

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Cebuano

Etymology

Proper noun

Derived terms

Czech

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Declension

Danish

Proper noun

Related terms

Dutch

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Related terms

Estonian

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Faroese

Proper noun

Usage notes

Declension

Finnish

Etymology

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Usage notes

Declension

Related terms

French

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Related terms

Anagrams

German

Etymology

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Related terms

Descendants

Hungarian

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Declension

Icelandic

Proper noun

Declension

Norwegian

Proper noun

Polish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Proper noun

Declension

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Further reading

Romanian

Etymology

Proper noun

References

Slovak

Pronunciation