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adobe

See also: Adobe and adobé

English edit

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

Etymology edit

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”).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

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 edit

 
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Etymology edit

From Spanish adobe.

Pronunciation edit

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

Noun edit

adobe m (plural adobes, diminutive adobetje n)

  1. adobe

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Etymology edit

Borrowed from Spanish adobe.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

adobe m (plural adobes)

  1. adobe

Further reading edit

Galician edit

Pronunciation edit

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

Etymology 1 edit

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 edit

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

References edit

  • “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 edit

Verb edit

adobe

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

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Romanization edit

adobe

  1. Rōmaji transcription of アドベ

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Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

 

  • Hyphenation: a‧do‧be

Noun edit

adobe m (plural adobes)

  1. adobe (unburnt brick)

References edit

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

Spanish edit

 
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Pronunciation edit

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

Etymology 1 edit

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

Noun edit

adobe m (plural adobes)

  1. (construction) adobe
Descendants edit
  • → Dutch: adobe
  • → English: adobe
  • → French: adobe
  • → Tagalog: adobe

Etymology 2 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb edit

adobe

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

Further reading edit

Tagalog edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

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”).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

adobe (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜇᜓᜊᜒ) (construction)

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

Derived terms edit

See also edit

References edit

  • “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
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