English
Etymology
From Spanish, from Arabic ARchar|ط�ب|ا�ط�ب (a�-�ūb), from Coptic tube (�brick�).
Pronunciation
IPA|/a'd��.bi/
Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-��bi|-��bi
Noun
en-noun|-
- An unburnt brick dried in the sun; also used as an adjective as an adobe house, in Texas or New Mexico.
Translations
French: adobe#French|adobe m
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Isthmus Zapotec: basoo
Quotations
Stone sidewalks, little more than a ledge in width, ran along the base of the mean and monotonous adobe houses. — Oâ��Henry, Cabbages and Kings
â��Find me a nice, clean adobe wall,â�� says he, â��and send Senor Rompiro up against it.â�� — Oâ��Henry, Roads of Destiny
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. — Star Wars script
2003: 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. — Roger Angell, in The New Yorker, 26 May 2003
Category:Arabic derivations
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French
Pronunciation
IPA|/a.d�b/
Noun
fr-noun|m
- adobe#English|adobe
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