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adobe

noun
/əˈdəʊ.bi/UK/əˈdoʊ.bi/US

Etymology

Etymology tree Egyptian ḏbt Demotic Egyptian tb Coptic ⲧⲱⲃⲉ (tōbe)der. Arabic طُوبَة (ṭūba) Andalusian Arabic طُوبَة Andalusian Arabic طُوبder. Spanish adobebor. English adobe From Spanish adobe, from Arabic اَلطُّوب (aṭ-ṭūb), from Sahidic Coptic ⲧⲱⲃⲉ (tōbe, “brick”), from Demotic Egyptian ⁠⁠ (tb, “brick”), from Egyptian Db-b-t:O39 (ḏbt, “brick, block, ingot”).

  1. derived from ḏbt
  2. derived from ⲧⲱⲃⲉ
  3. derived from طوب
  4. borrowed from adobe

Definitions

  1. An unburnt brick dried in the sun.

    • Many people in Texas and New Mexico live in adobe houses.
    • “Find me a nice, clean adobe wall,” says he, “and send Senor Rompiro up against it.”
    • Stone sidewalks, little more than a ledge in width, ran along the base of the mean and monotonous adobe houses.

  2. The earth from which such bricks are made.

  3. A house made of adobe brick.

    • The snow-dusted mesas and million-dollar adobes look enchanting as ever[…].
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Any file, document or program that is associated with Adobe Inc.

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