adobe – English noun declension

English noun forms of adobe

Noun: adobe
Singularadobe
Pluraladobes

Sample Sentences

  • 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.” [1903, O’Henry, Roads of Destiny:]
  • Stone sidewalks, little more than a ledge in width, ran along the base of the mean and monotonous adobe houses. [1904 November, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], Cabbages and Kings, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., page 24:]
  • 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. [1977, George Lucas, Star Wars (script)]
  • 26 May 2003, Roger Angell, in The New Yorker,
  • 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.
  • The snow-dusted mesas and million-dollar adobes look enchanting as ever[…]. [2007 March 11, Ralph Blumenthal, “Prosecutor’s Ouster Shifts Political Order”, in New York Times:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Egyptian ḏbt
3. Demotic Egyptian tb
4. Coptic ⲧⲱⲃⲉ (tōbe)der.
5. Arabic طُوبَة (ṭūba)
6. Andalusian Arabic طُوبَة
7. Andalusian Arabic طُوبder.
8. Spanish adobebor.
9. English adobe
10. 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”). See: Spanish Nouns 'adobe'.

Verbs referencing "adobe"

German Nouns Adobe.