adobe

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• Received-Pronunciation: /əˈdəʊ.bi/
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• US: /əˈdoʊ.bi/
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• US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• rhymes with -əʊbi
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• General-American: /əˈdoʊ.bi/
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• CMU ARPABET: AH0 D OW1 B IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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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”).

61 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: لَبِنَة (labina) — unburnt brick
• Arabic: لَبِن (labin) — unburnt brick
• Arabic: طُوب (ṭūb) — unburnt brick
• Arabic: طوبة (ṭūba) — unburnt brick
• Arabic: طوب (ṭūb) — unburnt brick
• Armenian: անթուրծ աղյուս (antʻurc aġyus) — unburnt brick
• Armenian: ալիզ (aliz) — unburnt brick
• Azerbaijani: palçıq kərpic — unburnt brick
• Azerbaijani: yandırılmamış kərpic — unburnt brick
• Bulgarian: кирпи́ч (kirpíč) — unburnt brick
• Catalan: tova — unburnt brick
• Chinese Mandarin: 土坯 (tǔpī) — unburnt brick
• Chinese Mandarin: 泥砖 (nízhuān) — unburnt brick
• Chinese Mandarin: 砖坯 (zhuānpī) — unburnt brick
• Czech: vepřovice — unburnt brick
• Dutch: adobe — unburnt brick
• Dutch: steenklei — unburnt brick
• Esperanto: adobo — unburnt brick
• Estonian: savitellis — unburnt brick
• Finnish: savitiili — unburnt brick
• French: adobe — unburnt brick
• Galician: adobe — unburnt brick
• German: Adobe — unburnt brick
• German: Lehmziegel — unburnt brick
• Greek: πλίνθος (plínthos) — unburnt brick
• Greek: πλιθί (plithí) — unburnt brick
• Hungarian: vályog — unburnt brick
• Hungarian: vályogtégla — unburnt brick
• Irish: adóib — unburnt brick
• Japanese: アドベ (adobe) — unburnt brick
• Korean: 어도비 (eodobi) — unburnt brick
• Macedonian: плитар (plitar) — unburnt brick
• Macedonian: ќерпич (ḱerpič) — unburnt brick
• Navajo: bis — unburnt brick
• Nogai: саман (saman) — unburnt brick
• Persian: خشت (xešt) — unburnt brick
• Plautdietsch: Adobe — unburnt brick
• Polish: glinobitka — unburnt brick
• Portuguese: adobe — unburnt brick
• Quechua: tika — unburnt brick
• Romanian: chirpici — unburnt brick
• Romanian: văiugă — unburnt brick
• Russian: сама́н (samán) — unburnt brick
• Spanish: adobe — unburnt brick
• Swedish: lersten — unburnt brick
• Taos: adùbiʼíne — unburnt brick
• Taos: ną̀xùʼúna — unburnt brick
• Turkish: kerpiç — unburnt brick
• Ottoman Turkish: كرپیچ (kerpiç) — unburnt brick
• Ottoman Turkish: لبن (libn) — unburnt brick
• Vietnamese: gạch sống — unburnt brick
• Isthmus Zapotec: basoo — unburnt brick
• Bulgarian: гли́на (glína) — the earth from which such bricks are made
• Finnish: tiilisavi — the earth from which such bricks are made
• French: argile — the earth from which such bricks are made
• Western Apache: goshtłʼish bee kįh — a house made of adobe brick
• Bulgarian: кирпи́чена къ́ща (kirpíčena kǎ́šta) — a house made of adobe brick
• Chinese Mandarin: 土砖房 — a house made of adobe brick
• Finnish: savitiilitalo — a house made of adobe brick
• French: maison en adobes — a house made of adobe brick
• Spanish: casa de adobe — a house made of adobe brick