adobe

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈdəʊ.bi, əˈdəʊb/
• (US) IPA^(key): /əˈdoʊ.bi/

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• Rhymes: -əʊbi

adobe (usually uncountable, plural adobes)

1. An unburnt brick dried in the sun.

   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, O’Henry, Cabbages and Kings

     Stone sidewalks, little more than a ledge in width, ran along the base of the mean and monotonous adobe houses.

   • (Can we date this quote?) 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.

2. The earth from which such bricks are made.
3. A house made of adobe brick.
   • 2007, March 11, “Ralph Blumenthal”, in Prosecutor’s Ouster Shifts Political Order‎:

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

• mudbrick (definition 1)

• adobe, Online Etymology Dictionary

• abode

From Spanish adobe.

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

adobe m (plural adobes, diminutive adobetje n)

1. adobe

From Spanish adobe.

• IPA^(key): /a.dɔb/

adobe m (plural adobes)

1. adobe

• “adobe” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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”),

• IPA^(key): /aˈðɔβe̝/

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

• “adobe” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “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.

adobe

1. Rōmaji transcription of アドベ

adobe m (plural adobes)

1. adobe (unburnt brick)

• IPA^(key): /aˈdobe/, [aˈðoβe]

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

adobe m (plural adobes)

1. (construction) adobe

See the etymology of the main entry.

adobe

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of adobar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of adobar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of adobar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of adobar.

• “adobe” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

• adube

Borrowed from Spanish adobe.

adobe

1. (construction) adobe

• The Tagalog Pinoy Dictionary