Adobe

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Etymology

From Spanish, from Arabic الطوب (aʈ-ʈūb), from Template:Cop[[Category:Template:Cop derivations|Adobe]] Template:Copt (tōbe), “‘brick’”), from Template:Egy[[Category:Template:Egy derivations|Adobe]] [[ḏbt#Template:Egy|ḏbt]].

Pronunciation

• IPA: /aˈdəʊ.bi/
• Rhymes: -əʊbi

Noun

Singular Adobe

Plural -

Adobe (-)

1. An unburnt brick dried in the sun.

   Many people in Texas and New Mexico live in adobe houses.

   • (A date for this quote is being sought): 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.

   • (A date for this quote is being sought): O’Henry, Roads of Destiny

     “Find me a nice, clean adobe wall,” says he, “and send Senor Rompiro up against it.”

   • (A date for this quote is being sought): 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. A house made of adobe brick.
   • 2007 March 11, Ralph Blumenthal, “Prosecutor’s Ouster Shifts Political Order”, New York Times:

     The snow-dusted mesas and million-dollar adobes look enchanting as everTemplate:....

Translations

unburnt brick

Bulgarian: кирпич bg(bg) Czech: vepřovice cs(cs) f. Dutch: adobe nl(nl) Esperanto: adobo eo(eo) French: adobe fr(fr) m.

Hungarian: vályog hu(hu) Isthmus Zapotec: basoo Romanian: chirpici ro(ro) n. Russian: саман ru(ru) (samán) m. Spanish: adobe es(es) m. Taos: adùbi’íne (the material), ną̀xù’úna (the individual bricks)

Anagrams

• abdeo,
• abode

References

• adobe, Online Etymology Dictionary

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Dutch

Wikipedia ^nl

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɑˈdo.bə/

Noun

Adobe (no plural, no diminutive)

1. adobe

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French

Wikipedia ^fr

Pronunciation

• IPA: /a.dɔb/

Noun

Adobe m. (plural Adobes)

1. adobe

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Spanish

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Noun

Adobe m. (plural Adobes)

Singular Adobe m.

Plural Adobes m.

1. adobe

Verb

Adobe (infinitive adobar)

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.

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