adobar
Spanish, verb/adoˈbaɾ/
adobar is spelled A-D-O-B-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 36 million words in written Spanish, the 215,438th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Adobar is a Spanish verb meaning “to marinate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Componer, arreglar, aderezar”.
What does adobar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to marinate
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Componer, arreglar, aderezar. 2. Guisar₁ (cocinar comida). 3. Aplicar a la piel sustancias especiales para curtir. 4. Aplicar a la piel sustancias especiales para su mantenimiento (adobo).
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 adobar
- adobo first-person present singular
- adobé first-person preterite singular
- adobado participle past
- adobando gerund
- adobada feminine participle past
- adobados masculine participle past
- adobadas feminine participle past
- adobas indicative informal present
- adobás indicative informal present
- adoba indicative present singular
- adobamos first-person indicative plural
- adobáis indicative plural present
- adoban indicative plural present
- adobaba first-person imperfect indicative
- adobabas imperfect indicative second-person
- adobábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- adobabais imperfect indicative plural
- adobaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce adobar?
- /adoˈbaɾ/
- [a.ð̞oˈβ̞aɾ]
- [að̞oˈβ̞aɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to adobar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is adobar in Spanish?
adobar appears about once in every 36 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).