adobe

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English

Etymology

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈdəʊ.bi/
• (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 (2001–2025) “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

• 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

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

• → 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

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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

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/ [ʔɐˈd̪oː.bɛ]
• Rhymes: -obe
• Syllabification: a‧do‧be

Noun

adobe (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜇᜓᜊᜒ) (construction)

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

Derived terms

See also

References

• “adobe”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
• “adobe”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• “adobe”, in Pinoy Dictionary, 2010–2025
• 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