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Definitions and meaning of adobe

adobe

Etymology

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈdəʊ.bi/, /əˈdəʊb/
• (US) IPA^(key): /əˈdoʊ.bi/
• Rhymes: -əʊbi

Noun

adobe (usually uncountable, plural adobes)

2. An unburnt brick dried in the sun.

   Synonyms: mudbrick, dobe

   • 1977, George Lucas, Star Wars (script)

     The Jawas mutter gibberish as they busily line up their battered captives, including Artoo and Threepio, in front of the enormous Sandcrawler, which is parked beside a small homestead consisting of three large holes in the ground surrounded by several tall moisture vaporators and one small adobe block house.

   • 26 May 2003, Roger Angell, in The New Yorker,

     The Sangre de Cristos came into view and the first soft-cornered adobe houses, and that night we ate at La Fonda with my Aunt Elsie, who worked for the Indian Bureau, and had Hopi snake dances and San Ildefonso pottery-makers and Mabel Dodge Luhan in store for us in the coming weeks.

4. The earth from which such bricks are made.
6. A house made of adobe brick.

Derived terms

Translations

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “adobe”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Anagrams

• Baode, EABOD, abode, boaed

Dutch

Etymology

From Spanish adobe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑˈdoː.bə/
• Hyphenation: ado‧be

Noun

adobe m (plural adobes, diminutive adobetje n)

1. adobe

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish adobe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.dɔb/

Noun

adobe m (plural adobes)

1. adobe

Further reading

• “adobe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Galician

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈdɔbe/ [aˈð̞ɔ.β̞ɪ]
• Rhymes: -ɔbe
• Hyphenation: a‧do‧be

Etymology 1

Noun

adobe m (plural adobes)

1. adobe (brick)
   • 1437, A. Rodríguez González (ed.), Livro do Concello de Pontevedra (1431-1463). Pontevedra: Museo de Pontevedra, page 132:

2. clod, divot, clump of earth

   Synonyms: baloco, terrón

References

• “adobe” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “adobe” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “adobe” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “adobe” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Etymology 2

Verb

adobe

1. inflection of adobar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Japanese

Romanization

adobe

1. Rōmaji transcription of アドベ

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• adobo

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic اَلطُّوب (aṭ-ṭūb).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: a‧do‧be

Noun

adobe m (plural adobes)

1. adobe (unburnt brick)

References

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈdobe/ [aˈð̞o.β̞e]
• Rhymes: -obe
• Syllabification: a‧do‧be

Etymology 1

Noun

adobe m (plural adobes)

1. (construction) adobe

Descendants

• → Dutch: adobe
• → English: adobe
• → French: adobe
• → Tagalog: adobe

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

adobe

1. inflection of adobar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “adobe”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• adube

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish adobe, from Arabic اَلطُّوب (aṭ-ṭūb), from Sahidic Coptic ⲧⲱⲃⲉ (tōbe, “brick”), from Demotic ⁠⁠ (tb, “brick”), from Egyptian

(ḏbt, “brick, block, ingot”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔaˈdobe/, [ʔɐˈdo.bɛ]
• Rhymes: -obe
• Syllabification: a‧do‧be

Noun

adobe (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜇᜓᜊᜒ) (construction)

1. adobe (brick)
2. adobe stone; quarry stone

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See also

References

• “adobe” at KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino‎^[2], Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2021
• “adobe”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• “adobe”, in Pinoy Dictionary, 2010–2024