adobe
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English
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
adobe (usually uncountable, plural adobes)
- An unburnt brick dried in the sun.
- 1903, O’Henry, Roads of Destiny:
- “Find me a nice, clean adobe wall,” says he, “and send Senor Rompiro up against it.”
- 1904 November, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], Cabbages and Kings, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., page 24:
- Stone sidewalks, little more than a ledge in width, ran along the base of the mean and monotonous adobe houses.
- 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.
- The earth from which such bricks are made.
- A house made of adobe brick.
Derived terms
Translations
unburnt brick
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a house made of adobe brick
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References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “adobe”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Anagrams
Dutch
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
adobe m (plural adobes, diminutive adobetje n)
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
adobe m (plural adobes)
Further reading
- “adobe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Galician
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Attested since the 15th century. Probably from Spanish adobe, from Arabic اَلطُّوب (aṭ-ṭūb), from Sahidic Coptic ⲧⲱⲃⲉ (tōbe, “brick”), from Demotic 
(tb, “brick”), from Egyptian
(ḏbt, “brick, block, ingot”).
(tb, “brick”), from Egyptian
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Noun
adobe m (plural adobes)
- adobe (brick)
- 1437, A. Rodríguez González (ed.), Livro do Concello de Pontevedra (1431-1463). Pontevedra: Museo de Pontevedra, page 132:
- pareçeu y presente Gonçalvo Fiel, moordomo da dita villa, e presentou ao dito juis, alcaldes, jurado e procuradores, a Gonçalvo de Carcaçia preso dos pees con huus adobes e hũa cadea grosa de ferro fechada con hũu cadeado
- there appeared Gonzalvo Fiel, butler of the aforementioned town, to present to the mentioned judge, councilors, juror, and council agent one Gonzalvo of Carcarcía, his feet fettered with some bricks and a thick iron chain which was locked with a padlock
- 1437, A. Rodríguez González (ed.), Livro do Concello de Pontevedra (1431-1463). Pontevedra: Museo de Pontevedra, page 132:
- clod, divot, clump of earth
References
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “adobe”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “adobe”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “adobe”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “adobe”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Etymology 2
Verb
adobe
- inflection of adobar:
Japanese
Romanization
adobe
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