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adobar

Pronunciation: [ə.ðuˈβa]

“adobar” is a Catalan word. Its 4 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to prepare; set up
  2. to marinate
  3. to do up (put in a good state)
  4. to fertilize (to make the soil fertile by adding nutrients)

In Catalan

  1. Compondre, reparar alguna cosa espatllada.
  2. Assaonar les pells.
  3. Assaonar les carns, posar-les en adob.
  4. Femar, engreixar o enriquir les terres.
  5. Millorar, posar en bon estat.

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French adober (“to knight, equip”), from Germanic.

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