dobe
English
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈdoʊ.bi/
Noun
dobe (usually uncountable, plural dobes)
- Clipping of adobe.
- 1927, Upton Sinclair, Oil!, page 11:
- Lots of cars got into trouble up there, said the man that soil was dobe, slick as glass; have to trench the road better.
- 1957, Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC:
- His wife and baby were with him in the dobe house, a small one that his Indian stepfather had built.
Anagrams
Alemannic German
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle High German dar oba. Cognate with German droben.
Pronunciation
Adverb
dobe (Zürich, eastern Switzerland)
- above, aloft, up, upstairs
- Antonym: dune
- S Gschänk isch uf em Schrank dobe. ― The gift is up on the wardrobe/closet.
- Dobe i de Bärge ischs schöön. ― It is beautiful up on the mountains.
Usage notes
- Only used in a locative sense.
Further reading
- “dāob”, in Schweizerisches Idiotikon. Wörterbuch der schweizerdeutschen Sprache[1] (in German), volume 12, 1961, column 13
Galician
Verb
dobe
- inflection of dobar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Japanese
Romanization
dobe
Murui Huitoto
Etymology
Cognates include Minica Huitoto dobe and Nüpode Huitoto dobe.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈdɔbɛ]
- Hyphenation: do‧be
Root
dobe
Derived terms
References
- Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)[2] (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 338
Slovene
Noun
dóbe
- accusative plural of dọ̑b
Noun
dôbe
- inflection of dóba:
- genitive singular
- nominative/accusative plural