dobe
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
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.
Alemannic German edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Middle High German dar oba. Cognate with German droben.
Pronunciation edit
Adverb edit
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 edit
- Only used in a locative sense.
Further reading edit
- “dāob”, in Schweizerisches Idiotikon. Wörterbuch der schweizerdeutschen Sprache[1] (in German), volume 12, 1961, column 13
Galician edit
Verb edit
dobe
- inflection of dobar:
Japanese edit
Romanization edit
dobe
Murui Huitoto edit
Etymology edit
Cognates include Minica Huitoto dobe and Nüpode Huitoto dobe.
Pronunciation edit
Root edit
dobe
Derived terms edit
References edit
- Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)[2] (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 338
Slovene edit
Noun edit
dóbe
- accusative plural of dọ̑b
Noun edit
dôbe
- inflection of dóba: