adobar

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

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ə.ðuˈβa]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ə.ðoˈba]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [a.ðoˈbaɾ]

adobar (first-person singular present adobo, first-person singular preterite adobí, past participle adobat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /o/

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

• “adobar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “adobar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “adobar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “adobar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

13th century. From Old French adober (“to knight, equip”), from Germanic.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /aðoˈβaɾ/

adobar (first-person singular present adobo, first-person singular preterite adobei, past participle adobado)

1. (archaic) to prepare; to set up
2. (archaic) to repair
3. (cooking) to marinate; to season

• adobeiro
• adobiar
• adobío
• adobo

• "adubar" in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “adub”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “adob”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “adobar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “adobar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “adobar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “adobar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Old French adober (“to knight, equip”), from Germanic.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /adoˈbaɾ/ [a.ð̞oˈβ̞aɾ]

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: a‧do‧bar

adobar (first-person singular present adobo, first-person singular preterite adobé, past participle adobado)

1. (transitive) to marinate

• “adobar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024