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adobe

Pronunciation: /əˈdəʊ.bi/

The English word “adobe” has 3 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. An unburnt brick dried in the sun.
  2. The earth from which such bricks are made.
  3. A house made of adobe brick.

Etymology

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”).

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