dobe

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdoʊ.bi/

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 43419454:

     His wife and baby were with him in the dobe house, a small one that his Indian stepfather had built.

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

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

• (Zurich) IPA^(key): /ˈd̥ob̥ə/

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.

• Only used in a locative sense.

• “dāob”, in Schweizerisches Idiotikon. Wörterbuch der schweizerdeutschen Sprache (in German), volume 12, 1961, column 13

dobe

1. Rōmaji transcription of どべ

dóbe

1. accusative plural of dọ̑b

dôbe

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