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adobe

adobe; sun-dried, unfired mud brickladrillo de barro sin cocer, secado al sol

Comes from Arabic

الطُّوب

aṭ-ṭūb

“the brick”«el ladrillo»

Arabic today says

طُوب

ṭūb

And it still does

The article

Spanish kept the Arabic article al- glued to the word.

Arabic itself had taken it from Coptic.

The story

A word thousands of years old: from ancient Egyptian it passed into Coptic tōbe, then into Arabic ṭūb and, through al-Andalus, into Spanish and all of the Americas.Una palabra con miles de años: del egipcio antiguo pasó al copto tōbe, de ahí al árabe ṭūb y, por al-Andalus, al castellano y a toda América.

In a sentence

En el pueblo aún quedan casas de adobe.

There are still adobe houses in the village.

مَا زَالَتْ فِي القَرْيَةِ بُيُوتٌ مِنَ الطُّوبِ اللَّبِن.