adobo

From Spanish adobo, from French adober (“equip a horseman”) (perhaps via Catalan [Term?]), from Frankish *dubban, from the same Germanic root as dab, dub. Compare French daube (earlier dobe (1571), adobbe (1598)), Italian dobba (1549), adobbo (1570).[1]

adobo (countable and uncountable, plural adobos)

1. A Philippine dish in which pork or chicken is slowly cooked in a sauce including soy sauce, vinegar, and crushed garlic.
2. A marinade.
   • 2009, January 27, “Susan Sampson”, in Chipotle pulled chicken on corn spoon bread‎:

     1 chipotle chili in adobo sauce

• adobo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Abood, abood

adobo

1. first-person singular present indicative form of adobar

From Spanish adobo.

• Hyphenation: a‧do‧bo

adobo

1. fried meat that has been marinated in soy sauce, garlic and vinegar or calamondin juice
2. a dish in which meat or liver is slowly cooked in a sauce including soy sauce, vinegar, garlic and onions
3. (slang) thumbsucking

adobo

1. to cook adobo
2. to cook meat this way
3. (slang) to suck one's thumb

• adobaw

• adó, adomo, adubo

Attested since the 13th century. Back-formation from adobar (“to prepare”).

• IPA^(key): /aˈðoβo̝/

adobo m (plural adobos)

1. (archaic) preparation, restoration
2. (dated) adornment
3. seasoning
   • c1300, R. Martínez López (ed.), General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV. Oviedo: Publicacións de Archivum, page 96:

     et buscarom os adobes das carnes et dos pescados que comyam, et fazer mãjares de moytas maneyras et de moytos sabores

     and they searched for the seasonings of the meats and fishes that they ate, and for preparing dishes in many ways and of many tastes

   Synonym: aderezo

4. marinade
   1. marinade of chopped pork with garlic, salt, paprika and other spices for the preparation of chorizo

      Synonym: amoado

   2. marinade of pork with garlic, salt, paprika and other spices for cooking

      Synonym: zorza

• adobar

• “adubo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “adubo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “adobe” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “adubo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “adobo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “adobo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From adobar.

• IPA^(key): /aˈdobo/ [aˈð̞o.β̞o]
• Rhymes: -obo
• Syllabification: a‧do‧bo

adobo m (plural adobos)

1. a delicacy of marinated meat

• → Cebuano: adobo
• → English: adobo
• → Tagalog: adobo

adobo

1. first-person singular present indicative of adobar

• “adobo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

• arobo – obsolete, Abecedario orthography
• arubo – obsolete

Borrowed from Spanish adobo (“delicacy of marinated meat”), from adobar (“marinate”), from Old French adober (“knighted”). Compare Kapampangan arobu.

• Hyphenation: a‧do‧bo
• IPA^(key): /ʔaˈdobo/, [ʔɐˈdo.bo]

adobo (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜇᜓᜊᜓ)

1. adobo (Philippine dish)

   Synonym: adobado

   Adobong manok at baboy ang ulam ni Maria kagabi.

   Maria had chicken and pork adobo last night.

• “adobo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018
• Fr. Pedro de San Buena Ventura (1613), Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero, La Noble Villa de Pila, page 26: “Adobo) Arobo (pp) C. [a vſo] de Caſtilla”