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dobe

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

English

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Noun

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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.

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Alemannic German

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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

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Adverb

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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.

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Galician

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Verb

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dobe

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

Japanese

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Romanization

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dobe

  1. Rōmaji transcription of どべ

Murui Huitoto

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Etymology

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Cognates include Minica Huitoto dobe and Nüpode Huitoto dobe.

Pronunciation

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

Root

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dobe

  1. crushing of yucca

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References

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  • Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)‎[2] (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 338

Slovene

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Noun

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dóbe

  1. accusative plural of dọ̑b

Noun

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dôbe

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