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noun a dish of marinated vegetables and meat or fish; served with rice
originFrom 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).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0