adobe

== English == === Etymology === === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əˈdəʊ.bi/ (US) IPA(key): /əˈdoʊ.bi/ Rhymes: -əʊbi === Noun === adobe (usually uncountable, plural adobes) An unburnt brick dried in the sun. Synonyms: dobe, mudbrick 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. The earth from which such bricks are made. A house made of adobe brick. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === References === Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “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) adobe == French == === Etymology === Borrowed from Spanish adobe. Doublet of toub. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /a.dɔb/ === Noun === adobe m (plural adobes) 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) adobe (brick) 1437, A. Rodríguez González (ed.), Livro do Concello de Pontevedra (1431-1463). Pontevedra: Museo de Pontevedra, page 132: clod, divot, clump of earth Synonyms: baloco, terrón ==== References ==== Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “adobe”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (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 inflection of adobar: first/third-person singular present subjunctive third-person singular imperative == Gullah == === Alternative forms === a'dobe === Etymology === Compare Twi Akan adobɛ (“a species of palm tree whose leaves, called Daha, are used to create roofing”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ʔa.do.bɛ/ === Noun === adobe a kind of grass (used for roofing) === References === Lorenzo Dow Turner, Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect (1969) == Japanese == === Romanization === adobe 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) adobe (unburnt brick) === References === === Further reading === “adobe”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 == Spanish == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /aˈdobe/ [aˈð̞o.β̞e] Rhymes: -obe Syllabification: a‧do‧be === Etymology 1 === ==== Noun ==== adobe m (plural adobes) (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 inflection of adobar: first/third-person singular present subjunctive third-person singular imperative === Further reading === “adobe”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025 == Tagalog == === Alternative forms === adube === Etymology === Borrowed from Spanish adobe, from Arabic اَلطُّوب (aṭ-ṭūb), from Sahidic Coptic ⲧⲱⲃⲉ (tōbe, “brick”), from Demotic Egyptian ⁠⁠ (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) adobe (brick) adobe stone; quarrystone ==== Derived terms ==== ==== See also ==== === References === “adobe”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2025 “adobe”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018 “adobe”, in Pinoy Dictionary, 2010–2026. 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