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See also: Adobe and adobé

English

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Adobe bricks (sense 1)
Adobe brick house (sense 3)

Etymology

From Spanish adobe, from Arabic اَلطُّوب (aṭ-ṭūb), from Sahidic Coptic ⲧⲱⲃⲉ (tōbe, “brick”), from Demotic O39⁠b-2⁠t (tb, “brick”), from Egyptian
Dbbt
O39
(ḏbt, “brick, block, ingot”).

Pronunciation

Noun

adobe (usually uncountable, plural adobes)

  2. An unburnt brick dried in the sun.
    Synonyms: mudbrick, dobe
    Many people in Texas and New Mexico live in adobe houses.
    • 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.
  4. The earth from which such bricks are made.
  6. A house made of adobe brick.
    • 2007 March 11, Ralph Blumenthal, “Prosecutor’s Ouster Shifts Political Order”, in New York Times‎:
      The snow-dusted mesas and million-dollar adobes look enchanting as ever […] .

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Etymology

From Spanish adobe.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

adobe m (plural adobes, diminutive adobetje n)

  1. adobe

French

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Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish adobe.

Pronunciation

Noun

adobe m (plural adobes)

  1. adobe

Further reading

Galician

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Attested since the 15th century. Probably from Spanish adobe, from Arabic اَلطُّوب (aṭ-ṭūb), from Sahidic Coptic ⲧⲱⲃⲉ (tōbe, “brick”), from Demotic O39⁠b-2⁠t (tb, “brick”), from Egyptian
Dbbt
O39
(ḏbt, “brick, block, ingot”).

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:
      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
  2. clod, divot, clump of earth
    Synonyms: baloco, terrón

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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

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