"adobe" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /əˈdəʊ.bi/ [Received-Pronunciation], /əˈdəʊb/ [Received-Pronunciation], /əˈdoʊ.bi/ [US] Audio: en-us-adobe.ogg [US] Forms: adobes [plural]
Rhymes: -əʊbi Etymology: From Spanish adobe, from Arabic اَلطُّوب (aṭ-ṭūb), from Sahidic Coptic ⲧⲱⲃⲉ (tōbe, “brick”), from Demotic ⁠⁠ (tb, “brick”), from Egyptian Db-b-t:O39 (ḏbt, “brick, block, ingot”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|es|adobe}} Spanish adobe, {{der|en|ar|طوب|اَلطُّوب}} Arabic اَلطُّوب (aṭ-ṭūb), {{der|en|cop|ⲧⲱⲃⲉ||brick}} Coptic ⲧⲱⲃⲉ (tōbe, “brick”), {{t2i-Egyd|t|b-2|O39}} ⁠⁠, {{l|egx-dem|tb}} tb, {{der|en|egx-dem||⁠⁠|brick|tr=tb}} Demotic ⁠⁠ (tb, “brick”), {{l|egy|ḏbt}} ḏbt, {{der|en|egy|ḏbt|<hiero>Db-b-t:O39</hiero>|brick, block, ingot|tr=ḏbt}} Egyptian Db-b-t:O39 (ḏbt, “brick, block, ingot”) Head templates: {{en-noun|-|s}} adobe (usually uncountable, plural adobes)
  1. An unburnt brick dried in the sun. Tags: uncountable, usually Synonyms: mudbrick, dobe Translations (unburnt brick): لَبِنَة (labina) [feminine] (Arabic), لَبِن (labin) [masculine, plural] (Arabic), طُوب (ṭūb) [masculine, plural] (Arabic), طوبة (ṭūba) [Egyptian-Arabic, feminine] (Arabic), طوب (ṭūb) [Egyptian-Arabic, masculine, plural] (Arabic), անթուրծ աղյուս (antʻurc aġyus) (Armenian), ալիզ (aliz) (Armenian), palçıq kərpic (Azerbaijani), yandırılmamış kərpic (Azerbaijani), кирпич (kirpič) (Bulgarian), tova [feminine] (Catalan), 土坯 (tǔpī) (Chinese Mandarin), 泥砖 (nízhuān) (Chinese Mandarin), 砖坯 (zhuānpī) (Chinese Mandarin), vepřovice [feminine] (Czech), adobe (Dutch), steenklei (Dutch), adobo (Esperanto), savitellis (Estonian), savitiili (Finnish), adobe [masculine] (French), adobe [masculine] (Galician), Adobe [masculine] (German), Lehmziegel [masculine] (German), πλίνθος (plínthos) [feminine] (Greek), vályog (Hungarian), vályogtégla (Hungarian), adóib [feminine] (Irish), basoo (Isthmus Zapotec), アドベ (adobe) (Japanese), плитар (plitar) [masculine] (Macedonian), ќерпич (ḱerpič) [masculine] (Macedonian), bis (Navajo), саман (saman) (Nogai), كرپیچ (kerpiç) (Ottoman Turkish), لبن (libn) (Ottoman Turkish), خشت (xešt) (Persian), Adobe [neuter] (Plautdietsch), glinobitka [feminine] (Polish), adobe [masculine] (Portuguese), tika (Quechua), chirpici [neuter] (Romanian), văiugă [feminine] (Romanian), сама́н (samán) [masculine] (Russian), adobe [masculine] (Spanish), adùbiʼíne (english: the material) (Taos), ną̀xùʼúna (english: the individual bricks) (Taos), kerpiç (Turkish), gạch sống (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-adobe-en-noun-en:brick Disambiguation of 'unburnt brick': 72 4 24
  2. The earth from which such bricks are made. Tags: uncountable, usually Translations (the earth from which such bricks are made): tiilisavi (Finnish), argile [feminine] (French)
    Sense id: en-adobe-en-noun-en:material Disambiguation of 'the earth from which such bricks are made': 2 90 9
  3. A house made of adobe brick. Tags: uncountable, usually Translations (a house made of adobe brick): 土砖房 (Chinese Mandarin), savitiilitalo (Finnish), maison en adobes [feminine] (French), casa de adobe [feminine] (Spanish), goshtłʼish bee kįh (Western Apache)
    Sense id: en-adobe-en-noun-en:house Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 30 6 64 Disambiguation of 'a house made of adobe brick': 6 7 86
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: adobe bread, adobelike, adobe lily, superadobe

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          "text": "Many people in Texas and New Mexico live in adobe houses.",
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          "ref": "1903, O’Henry, Roads of Destiny",
          "text": "“Find me a nice, clean adobe wall,” says he, “and send Senor Rompiro up against it.”",
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          "ref": "1977, George Lucas, Star Wars (script)",
          "text": "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."
        },
        {
          "text": "26 May 2003, Roger Angell, in The New Yorker,\nThe 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."
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          "roman": "labina",
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          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "لَبِنَة"
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          "word": "لَبِن"
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          "word": "طُوب"
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          "code": "hy",
          "lang": "Armenian",
          "roman": "antʻurc aġyus",
          "sense": "unburnt brick",
          "word": "անթուրծ աղյուս"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "72 4 24",
          "code": "hy",
          "lang": "Armenian",
          "roman": "aliz",
          "sense": "unburnt brick",
          "word": "ալիզ"
        },
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          "_dis1": "72 4 24",
          "code": "az",
          "lang": "Azerbaijani",
          "sense": "unburnt brick",
          "word": "palçıq kərpic"
        },
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          "code": "az",
          "lang": "Azerbaijani",
          "sense": "unburnt brick",
          "word": "yandırılmamış kərpic"
        },
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          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "kirpič",
          "sense": "unburnt brick",
          "word": "кирпич"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "72 4 24",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "unburnt brick",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "tova"
        },
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          "_dis1": "72 4 24",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "tǔpī",
          "sense": "unburnt brick",
          "word": "土坯"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "72 4 24",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "nízhuān",
          "sense": "unburnt brick",
          "word": "泥砖"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "72 4 24",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "zhuānpī",
          "sense": "unburnt brick",
          "word": "砖坯"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "72 4 24",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "unburnt brick",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "vepřovice"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "72 4 24",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "unburnt brick",
          "word": "adobe"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "72 4 24",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "unburnt brick",
          "word": "steenklei"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "72 4 24",
          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "unburnt brick",
          "word": "adobo"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "72 4 24",
          "code": "et",
          "lang": "Estonian",
          "sense": "unburnt brick",
          "word": "savitellis"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "72 4 24",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "unburnt brick",
          "word": "savitiili"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "72 4 24",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "unburnt brick",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "adobe"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "72 4 24",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "unburnt brick",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "adobe"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "72 4 24",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "unburnt brick",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Adobe"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "72 4 24",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "unburnt brick",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Lehmziegel"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "72 4 24",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "plínthos",
          "sense": "unburnt brick",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "πλίνθος"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "72 4 24",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "unburnt brick",
          "word": "vályog"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "72 4 24",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "unburnt brick",
          "word": "vályogtégla"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "72 4 24",
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "unburnt brick",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "adóib"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "72 4 24",
          "code": "zai",
          "lang": "Isthmus Zapotec",
          "sense": "unburnt brick",
          "word": "basoo"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "72 4 24",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "adobe",
          "sense": "unburnt brick",
          "word": "アドベ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "72 4 24",
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "plitar",
          "sense": "unburnt brick",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "плитар"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "72 4 24",
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "ḱerpič",
          "sense": "unburnt brick",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "ќерпич"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "72 4 24",
          "code": "nv",
          "lang": "Navajo",
          "sense": "unburnt brick",
          "word": "bis"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "72 4 24",
          "code": "nog",
          "lang": "Nogai",
          "roman": "saman",
          "sense": "unburnt brick",
          "word": "саман"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "72 4 24",
          "code": "ota",
          "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
          "roman": "kerpiç",
          "sense": "unburnt brick",
          "word": "كرپیچ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "72 4 24",
          "code": "ota",
          "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
          "roman": "libn",
          "sense": "unburnt brick",
          "word": "لبن"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "72 4 24",
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "xešt",
          "sense": "unburnt brick",
          "word": "خشت"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "72 4 24",
          "code": "pdt",
          "lang": "Plautdietsch",
          "sense": "unburnt brick",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "Adobe"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "72 4 24",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "unburnt brick",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "glinobitka"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "72 4 24",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "unburnt brick",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "adobe"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "72 4 24",
          "code": "qu",
          "lang": "Quechua",
          "sense": "unburnt brick",
          "word": "tika"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "72 4 24",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "unburnt brick",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "chirpici"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "72 4 24",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "unburnt brick",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "văiugă"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "72 4 24",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "samán",
          "sense": "unburnt brick",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "сама́н"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "72 4 24",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "unburnt brick",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "adobe"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "72 4 24",
          "code": "twf",
          "english": "the material",
          "lang": "Taos",
          "sense": "unburnt brick",
          "word": "adùbiʼíne"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "72 4 24",
          "code": "twf",
          "english": "the individual bricks",
          "lang": "Taos",
          "sense": "unburnt brick",
          "word": "ną̀xùʼúna"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "72 4 24",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "unburnt brick",
          "word": "kerpiç"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "72 4 24",
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "unburnt brick",
          "word": "gạch sống"
        }
      ]
    },
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      "glosses": [
        "The earth from which such bricks are made."
      ],
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      ],
      "senseid": [
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      "tags": [
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      ],
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        {
          "_dis1": "2 90 9",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "the earth from which such bricks are made",
          "word": "tiilisavi"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 90 9",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "the earth from which such bricks are made",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "argile"
        }
      ]
    },
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
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            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w+disamb"
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        {
          "ref": "2007 March 11, Ralph Blumenthal, “Prosecutor’s Ouster Shifts Political Order”, in New York Times",
          "text": "The snow-dusted mesas and million-dollar adobes look enchanting as ever[…].",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A house made of adobe brick."
      ],
      "id": "en-adobe-en-noun-en:house",
      "links": [
        [
          "house",
          "house"
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      ],
      "senseid": [
        "en:house"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
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      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "6 7 86",
          "code": "apw",
          "lang": "Western Apache",
          "sense": "a house made of adobe brick",
          "word": "goshtłʼish bee kįh"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "6 7 86",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "a house made of adobe brick",
          "word": "土砖房"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "6 7 86",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "a house made of adobe brick",
          "word": "savitiilitalo"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "6 7 86",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "a house made of adobe brick",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "maison en adobes"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "6 7 86",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "a house made of adobe brick",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "casa de adobe"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/əˈdəʊ.bi/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/əˈdəʊb/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/əˈdoʊ.bi/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-əʊbi"
    },
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      "audio": "en-us-adobe.ogg",
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/En-us-adobe.ogg",
      "tags": [
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    "adobe"
  ],
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}
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    "English 3-syllable words",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms borrowed from Spanish",
    "English terms derived from Arabic",
    "English terms derived from Coptic",
    "English terms derived from Demotic",
    "English terms derived from Egyptian",
    "English terms derived from Spanish",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "Rhymes:English/əʊbi",
    "Rhymes:English/əʊbi/3 syllables",
    "tl:Construction"
  ],
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    {
      "word": "adobe bread"
    },
    {
      "word": "adobelike"
    },
    {
      "word": "adobe lily"
    },
    {
      "word": "superadobe"
    }
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "es",
        "3": "adobe"
      },
      "expansion": "Spanish adobe",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ar",
        "3": "طوب",
        "4": "اَلطُّوب"
      },
      "expansion": "Arabic اَلطُّوب (aṭ-ṭūb)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "cop",
        "3": "ⲧⲱⲃⲉ",
        "4": "",
        "5": "brick"
      },
      "expansion": "Coptic ⲧⲱⲃⲉ (tōbe, “brick”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "t",
        "2": "b-2",
        "3": "O39"
      },
      "expansion": "⁠⁠",
      "name": "t2i-Egyd"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "egx-dem",
        "2": "tb"
      },
      "expansion": "tb",
      "name": "l"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
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        "3": "",
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      },
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      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "egy",
        "2": "ḏbt"
      },
      "expansion": "ḏbt",
      "name": "l"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "egy",
        "3": "ḏbt",
        "4": "<hiero>Db-b-t:O39</hiero>",
        "5": "brick, block, ingot",
        "tr": "ḏbt"
      },
      "expansion": "Egyptian Db-b-t:O39 (ḏbt, “brick, block, ingot”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Spanish adobe, from Arabic اَلطُّوب (aṭ-ṭūb), from Sahidic Coptic ⲧⲱⲃⲉ (tōbe, “brick”), from Demotic ⁠⁠ (tb, “brick”), from Egyptian Db-b-t:O39 (ḏbt, “brick, block, ingot”).",
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    {
      "form": "adobes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-",
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      "expansion": "adobe (usually uncountable, plural adobes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "categories": [
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        "English terms with usage examples",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
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        {
          "text": "Many people in Texas and New Mexico live in adobe houses.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1903, O’Henry, Roads of Destiny",
          "text": "“Find me a nice, clean adobe wall,” says he, “and send Senor Rompiro up against it.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1977, George Lucas, Star Wars (script)",
          "text": "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."
        },
        {
          "text": "26 May 2003, Roger Angell, in The New Yorker,\nThe 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."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An unburnt brick dried in the sun."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "unburnt",
          "burnt"
        ],
        [
          "brick",
          "brick"
        ]
      ],
      "senseid": [
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      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "mudbrick"
        },
        {
          "word": "dobe"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "The earth from which such bricks are made."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "earth",
          "earth"
        ]
      ],
      "senseid": [
        "en:material"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007 March 11, Ralph Blumenthal, “Prosecutor’s Ouster Shifts Political Order”, in New York Times",
          "text": "The snow-dusted mesas and million-dollar adobes look enchanting as ever[…].",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A house made of adobe brick."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "house",
          "house"
        ]
      ],
      "senseid": [
        "en:house"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ]
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  ],
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      "ipa": "/əˈdəʊ.bi/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/əˈdəʊb/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/əˈdoʊ.bi/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-əʊbi"
    },
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      "audio": "en-us-adobe.ogg",
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    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "labina",
      "sense": "unburnt brick",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "لَبِنَة"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "labin",
      "sense": "unburnt brick",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "لَبِن"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "ṭūb",
      "sense": "unburnt brick",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "طُوب"
    },
    {
      "code": "arz",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "ṭūba",
      "sense": "unburnt brick",
      "tags": [
        "Egyptian-Arabic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "طوبة"
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    {
      "code": "arz",
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      "sense": "unburnt brick",
      "tags": [
        "Egyptian-Arabic",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "طوب"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "antʻurc aġyus",
      "sense": "unburnt brick",
      "word": "անթուրծ աղյուս"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "aliz",
      "sense": "unburnt brick",
      "word": "ալիզ"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "unburnt brick",
      "word": "palçıq kərpic"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "unburnt brick",
      "word": "yandırılmamış kərpic"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "kirpič",
      "sense": "unburnt brick",
      "word": "кирпич"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "unburnt brick",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "tova"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "tǔpī",
      "sense": "unburnt brick",
      "word": "土坯"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "nízhuān",
      "sense": "unburnt brick",
      "word": "泥砖"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "zhuānpī",
      "sense": "unburnt brick",
      "word": "砖坯"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "unburnt brick",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "vepřovice"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "unburnt brick",
      "word": "adobe"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "unburnt brick",
      "word": "steenklei"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "unburnt brick",
      "word": "adobo"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "unburnt brick",
      "word": "savitellis"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "unburnt brick",
      "word": "savitiili"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "unburnt brick",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "adobe"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "unburnt brick",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "adobe"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "unburnt brick",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Adobe"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "unburnt brick",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Lehmziegel"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "plínthos",
      "sense": "unburnt brick",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "πλίνθος"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "unburnt brick",
      "word": "vályog"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "unburnt brick",
      "word": "vályogtégla"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "unburnt brick",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "adóib"
    },
    {
      "code": "zai",
      "lang": "Isthmus Zapotec",
      "sense": "unburnt brick",
      "word": "basoo"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "adobe",
      "sense": "unburnt brick",
      "word": "アドベ"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "plitar",
      "sense": "unburnt brick",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "плитар"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "ḱerpič",
      "sense": "unburnt brick",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ќерпич"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "ḱerpič",
      "sense": "unburnt brick",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ќерпич"
    },
    {
      "code": "nv",
      "lang": "Navajo",
      "sense": "unburnt brick",
      "word": "bis"
    },
    {
      "code": "nog",
      "lang": "Nogai",
      "roman": "saman",
      "sense": "unburnt brick",
      "word": "саман"
    },
    {
      "code": "ota",
      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "roman": "kerpiç",
      "sense": "unburnt brick",
      "word": "كرپیچ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ota",
      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "roman": "libn",
      "sense": "unburnt brick",
      "word": "لبن"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "xešt",
      "sense": "unburnt brick",
      "word": "خشت"
    },
    {
      "code": "pdt",
      "lang": "Plautdietsch",
      "sense": "unburnt brick",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Adobe"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "unburnt brick",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "glinobitka"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "unburnt brick",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "adobe"
    },
    {
      "code": "qu",
      "lang": "Quechua",
      "sense": "unburnt brick",
      "word": "tika"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "unburnt brick",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "chirpici"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "unburnt brick",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "văiugă"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "samán",
      "sense": "unburnt brick",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "сама́н"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "unburnt brick",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "adobe"
    },
    {
      "code": "twf",
      "english": "the material",
      "lang": "Taos",
      "sense": "unburnt brick",
      "word": "adùbiʼíne"
    },
    {
      "code": "twf",
      "english": "the individual bricks",
      "lang": "Taos",
      "sense": "unburnt brick",
      "word": "ną̀xùʼúna"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "unburnt brick",
      "word": "kerpiç"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "unburnt brick",
      "word": "gạch sống"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "the earth from which such bricks are made",
      "word": "tiilisavi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "the earth from which such bricks are made",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "argile"
    },
    {
      "code": "apw",
      "lang": "Western Apache",
      "sense": "a house made of adobe brick",
      "word": "goshtłʼish bee kįh"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "a house made of adobe brick",
      "word": "土砖房"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "a house made of adobe brick",
      "word": "savitiilitalo"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "a house made of adobe brick",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "maison en adobes"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "a house made of adobe brick",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "casa de adobe"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "adobe"
  ],
  "word": "adobe"
}

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