アルバム
アルバム · arubamu · JLPT N3 · noun
album
📔 Loanword: アルバム = al-bu-m, the English album with a Japanese vowel after each consonant
Japanese doesn't allow consonant clusters, so 'al' becomes ア+ル and 'bum' becomes バ+ム. The word goes back to Latin albus, meaning white: an album was first a blank white tablet waiting to be filled.