adobo

Meaning

Noun

• A Philippine dish in which pork or chicken is slowly cooked in a sauce including soy sauce, vinegar, and crushed garlic.
• A marinade.

Origin

• From Spanish adobo, from French adober ("equip a horseman") (perhaps via Catalan), from Frankish *dubbjan, from the same Germanic root as dab, dub. Compare French daube (earlier dobe (1571), adobbe (1598)), Italian dobba (1549), adobbo (1570).