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adarve

Spanish, noun

adarve is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “defense wall” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present subjunctive of adarvar. With an accent, adarvé is a different word: “first-person singular preterite indicative of adarvar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Muro de una fortaleza”.

What does adarve mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinedefense wall

  2. 2

    masculinewall walk, allure (protected pathway on a wall of a city or castle)

  3. 3

    masculinedead end

  4. 4

    masculinealley to people's housing (in medieval Muslim cities, closed at night)

verb

  1. 1

    first/third-person singular present subjunctive

  2. 2

    third-person singular imperative

verb

as adarvé
  1. 1

    first-person singular preterite indicative of adarvar

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Muro de una fortaleza. 2. Por extensión: defensa o protección. 3. Camino que discurre por la zona superior de una muralla o recinto defensivo, por detrás de las almenas. En las fortificaciones modernas se llama adarve al terraplén que queda después de construído el parapeto.

The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.

Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of adarve

  • adarves plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How common is adarve in Spanish?

adarve appears about once in every 8 million words in written Spanish.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).