adobe

See also: adobé

English

Etymology

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

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

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -əʊbi

Noun

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.

Synonyms

• mudbrick (definition 1)

Translations

unburnt brick

• Arabic: لَبِنَة f (labina), لَبِن (ar) m pl (labin), طُوب (ar) m pl (ṭūb)

  Egyptian Arabic: طوبة f (ṭūba), طوب m pl (ṭūb)

• Armenian: անթուրծ աղյուս (antʻurc aġyus), ալիզ (hy) (aliz)
• Bulgarian: кирпич (bg) (kirpič)
• Catalan: tova (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 土坯 (zh) (tǔpī)

• Czech: vepřovice (cs) f
• Dutch: adobe (nl), steenklei
• Esperanto: adobo (eo)
• Estonian: savitellis
• Finnish: savitiili (fi)
• French: adobe (fr) m
• Galician: adobe (gl) m
• German: Adobe (de) m, Lehmziegel (de) m
• Greek: πλίνθος (el) f (plínthos)
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• Hungarian: vályog (hu), vályogtégla (hu)
• Irish: adóib f
• Isthmus Zapotec: basoo
• Macedonian: плитар m (plitar), ќерпич m (ḱerpič), ќерпич m (ḱerpič)
• Navajo: bis
• Nogai: саман (saman)
• Persian: خشت (fa) (xesht)
• Portuguese: adobe (pt) m
• Quechua: taki
• Romanian: chirpici (ro) n
• Russian: сама́н (ru) m (samán)
• Spanish: adobe (es) m
• Taos: (the material) adùbiʼíne, (the individual bricks) ną̀xùʼúna
• Turkish: kerpiç (tr)
• Vietnamese: gạch sống

the earth from which such bricks are made

• Finnish: tiilisavi
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a house made of adobe brick

• Finnish: savitiilitalo
• French: maison en adobes f
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• Spanish: casa de adobe f

References

• adobe, Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• abode

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Dutch

Etymology

From Spanish adobe.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

adobe m (plural adobes, diminutive adobetje n)

1. adobe

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French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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.

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Galician

Etymology

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”),

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈðɔβe̝/

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:

     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

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “adobe”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Template:R:DDLG
• Template:R:TILG
• “adobe” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Japanese

Romanization

adobe

1. Rōmaji transcription of アドベ

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Portuguese

Noun

adobe m (plural s)

1. adobe (unburnt brick)

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈdobe/ [aˈð̞o.β̞e]

Etymology 1

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

Noun

adobe m (plural adobes)

1. (construction) adobe

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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.

Further reading

• Template:R:DRAE 2001

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Tagalog

Alternative forms

• adube

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish adobe.

Noun

adobe

1. (construction) adobe

References

• The Tagalog Pinoy Dictionary