adobar

Catalan

Etymology

From Frankish *dubban (“to hit, push”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ə.ðuˈβa]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ə.ðoˈba]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [a.ðoˈbaɾ]

Verb

adobar (first-person singular present adobo, first-person singular preterite adobí, past participle adobat)

1. (transitive) to prepare; set up
2. (transitive, cooking) to marinate
3. (transitive) to do up (put in a good state)
4. (transitive) to fertilize (to make the soil fertile by adding nutrients)

Derived terms

• adob
• adobament

Further reading

• “adobar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “adobar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “adobar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “adobar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Galician

Etymology

13th century. From Old French adober (“to knight; to equip”), from Frankish *dubban (“to hit, push”), from Proto-Germanic *dub (“to fit”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aðoˈβaɾ/

Verb

1. (archaic) to prepare; to set up
2. (archaic) to repair
3. (cooking) to marinate; to season

Derived terms

• adobeiro
• adobiar
• adobío
• adobo

References

• "adubar" in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “adub”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “adob”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
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• “adobar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Spanish

Etymology

From Old French adober (“knighted”), from Frankish *dubban (“to hit, push”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /adoˈbaɾ/ [a.ð̞oˈβ̞aɾ]

Verb

1. (transitive) to marinate

Derived terms

• adobo

Further reading

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