From adobar +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ə.ðuˈβe]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ə.ðoˈbe]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [a.ðoˈbeɾ]

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adober m (plural adobers, feminine adobera, feminine plural adoberes)

1. tanner

• adoberia

• adobador

• “adober”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026

• adobier, adouber, adoubier, aduber, adubier

From a- + a Germanic root related to Proto-Germanic *dubilaz (“peg, dowel”).

adober

1. to dub (to bestow the title of knight upon)
   • c. 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:

     Ot adobé li rois Artus
     Quatre çanz chevaliers et plus

     King Arthur knighted
     More than 400 knights

2. to equip
3. (reflexive, s'adober) to equip oneself

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-b, *-bs, *-bt are modified to p, s, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

• Old French: adoub, ⇒? adoux, adoz, ⇒ hadoux, hadoz, ⇒? hadot
  • ⇒ Anglo-Norman: hadoc
    • → Middle English: haddok
      • English: haddock (see there for further descendants)
      • Scots: haddock
  • → Catalan: dot

• dauber