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English

Etymology

From French daube.

Noun

daube (plural daubes)

1. A stew of braised meat, usually beef.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from obsolete Italian dobba (“marinade”), perhaps from Catalan adobar (“to marinate”). The Italian word is no longer in current use but still found in Sicilian.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dob/
• Rhymes: -ob

Noun

daube f (plural daubes)

1. stew, casserole; daube
2. (slang) crap; crappiness (something of low quality)

Related terms

• daubière

Verb

daube

1. first-person singular present indicative of dauber
2. third-person singular present indicative of dauber
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of dauber
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of dauber
5. second-person singular imperative of dauber

Further reading

• “daube” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

References

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??b/

Noun

aube (plural aubes)

1. Obsolete form of alb.
   • 1648, Thomas Fuller, The History of the University of Cambridge since the Conquest

     For washing eleven aubes and as many head-clothes , six

Anagrams

• Beau, beau

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ob/
• Homophone: aubes
• Hyphenation: aube
• Rhymes: -ob

Etymology 1

From Old French albe, from Vulgar Latin alba, from Latin albus (“white”).

Noun

aube f (plural aubes)

1. dawn, sunrise, daybreak
2. beginning

Synonyms

• aurore f

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin alba.

Noun

aube f (plural aubes)

1. (religion) alb

Etymology 3

Probably from Latin alapa (“blow, slap, smack”), of uncertain origin.

Noun

aube f (plural aubes)

1. (technology) paddle, blade
2. vane (of windmill)
3. small plank

Synonyms

• (paddle): palette f
• (plank): planchette f

Anagrams

• beau

Further reading

• “aube” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).