dobe

See also: Dobe, době, dobę, dóbè, and döbe̩

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdoʊ.bi/

Noun

dobe (usually uncountable, plural dobes)

1. 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

• Bode, Debo, bode, Obed, bedo

Alemannic German

Alternative forms

• dobä, doba
• dobne
• diob
• diobe
• tioup
• dohobe
• drob

Etymology

From Middle High German dar oba. Cognate with German droben.

Pronunciation

• (Zürich) IPA^(key): /ˈd̥ob̥ə/

Adverb

dobe (Zürich, eastern Switzerland)

1. 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 (in German), volume 12, 1961, column 13

Galician

Verb

dobe

1. inflection of dobar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Japanese

Romanization

dobe

1. Rōmaji transcription of どべ

Murui Huitoto

Etymology

Cognates include Minica Huitoto dobe and Nüpode Huitoto dobe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈdɔbɛ]
• Hyphenation: do‧be

Root

dobe

1. crushing of yucca

Derived terms

• dobede
• dobeño

References

• Shirley Burtch (1983), Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)‎ (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 338

Slovene

Noun

dóbe

1. accusative plural of dọ̑b

Noun

dôbe

1. inflection of dóba:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative plural