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adobe

See also: Adobe and adobé

English

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

Etymology

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

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Noun

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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[1]:
      The snow-dusted mesas and million-dollar adobes look enchanting as ever […] .

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Dutch

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Etymology

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From Spanish adobe.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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adobe m (plural adobes, diminutive adobetje n)

  1. adobe

French

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish adobe.

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Noun

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adobe m (plural adobes)

  1. adobe

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Galician

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Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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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
Dbbt
O39
(ḏbt, “brick, block, ingot”).

Noun

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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

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Verb

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adobe

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

Japanese

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Romanization

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adobe

  1. Rōmaji transcription of アドベ

Portuguese

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic اَلطُّوب (aṭ-ṭūb).[1][2]

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: a‧do‧be

Noun

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adobe m (plural adobes)

  1. adobe (unburnt brick)

References

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  1. ^ “adobe”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
  2. ^ “adobe”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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

Noun

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adobe m (plural adobes)

  1. (construction) adobe
Descendants
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  • → Aragonese: adoba
  • → Asturian: adobe
  • → Basque: adobe
  • → Dutch: adobe
  • → English: adobe
  • → Esperanto: adobo
  • → French: adobe
  • → Galician: adobe
  • → Irish: adóib
  • → Italian: adobe
  • → Norwegian: adobe
  • → Serbo-Croatian: adobe / адобе
  • → Tagalog: adobe

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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adobe

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

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Tagalog

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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

Dbbt
O39

(ḏbt, “brick, block, ingot”).

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Noun

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adobe (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜇᜓᜊᜒ) (construction)

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

Derived terms

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See also

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References

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  • “adobe”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
  • “adobe”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
  • “adobe”, in Pinoy Dictionary, 2010–2024
  • Cuadrado Muñiz, Adolfo (1972) Hispanismos en el tagalo: diccionario de vocablos de origen español vigentes en esta lengua filipina, Madrid: Oficina de Educación Iberoamericana, page 12
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