# adobo

> English word · Noun · IPA /ʔaˈdobo/ · frequency rank #80,156

## Definitions
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.

## Etymology
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).

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/adobo