adobo

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

• (Philippines) IPA^(key): /ʔɐˈd̪oː.bo/

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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, “Chipotle pulled chicken on corn spoon bread”, in Toronto Star‎:

     1 chipotle chili in adobo sauce

• adobo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Abood, abood

adobo

1. first-person singular present indicative 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

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

• adó, adomo, adubo

• IPA^(key): /aˈðoβo̝/

adobo m (plural adobos)

1. (archaic) preparation, restoration
2. (dated) adornment
3. seasoning
   • c. 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, 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

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “adubo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “adubo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “adobe”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “adubo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “adobo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “adobo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

adobo

1. first-person singular present indicative of adobar

• IPA^(key): /aˈdobo/
• Rhymes: -obo
• Syllabification: a‧do‧bo

Deverbal from adobar.

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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

• arobo — obsolete, Spanish-based orthography
• arubo — obsolete

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

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔaˈdobo/

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• Rhymes: -obo
• Syllabification: a‧do‧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, 2018
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (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”
• Cuadrado Muñiz, Adolfo (1972) Hispanismos en el tagalo: diccionario de vocablos de origen español vigentes en esta lengua filipina, Madrid: Oficina de Educación Iberoamericana, page 12