izba

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See also: izbã, izbă, izbą, and iżba'

English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Russian изба́ (izbá).

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Noun

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izba (plural izbas)

  1. a Russian log hut
    • 1962, Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire:
      From the doctor's I flitted over to a travel agency, obtained maps and booklets, studied them, learned that on the mountainside above Cedarn there were two or three clusters of cabins, rushed my order to the Cedarn Post Office, and a few days later had rented for the month of August what looked in the snapshots they sent me like a cross between a mujik's izba and Refuge Z, but it had a tiled bathroom and cost dearer than my Appalachian castle.

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Old Polish

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *jьstъba. First attested in 1413.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /izba/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /izba/

Noun

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izba f

  1. (attested in Masovia, Silesia, Lesser Poland) hut; house
    • 1920 [1413], Marceli Handelsman, Antoni Rybarski, Kazimierz Tymieniecki, editors, Najdawniejsze księgi sądowe mazowieckie, volume I, number 1951, Płońsk:
      Yacom ya sedzal s Dzirskem w geney isthbe
      [Jakom ja siedział z Dzirżkiem w jenej istbie]
    • 1931 [1465], Rudolf Rauscher, editor, Soudní knihy osvětimské a zátorské z r. 1440-1562[1], number 133, Oświęcim, Zator:
      A to tho magi poszadzycz v Osszvyaczymyu u klastorze v yszdbye tu, gdye pravo szedzalo
      [A to to maji posędzić w Oświęcimiu w klasztorze w istbie tu, gdzie prawo siedziało]

Descendants

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  • Polish: izba

References

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  • B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “izba”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Polish

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Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl

Etymology

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Inherited from Old Polish izba. Doublet of sztuba.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈiz.ba/
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  • Rhymes: -izba
  • Syllabification: iz‧ba

Noun

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izba f (diminutive izbeczka or izbina or izdebka, related adjective izbowy)

  1. (literary) chamber, room
    Synonym: pokój
  2. (government) chamber, house, office (governmental body)

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Further reading

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  • izba in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • izba in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *jьstъba.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ǐzba/
  • Hyphenation: iz‧ba

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ìzba f (Cyrillic spelling ѝзба) < *istba

  1. (archaic) room
  2. (archaic) hovel

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References

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  • izba”, in Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

Slovak

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *jьstъba. From either Old High German stuba or a Romance word (compare French étuve). [1]

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izba f (genitive singular izby, nominative plural izby, genitive plural izieb, declension pattern of žena)

  1. chamber, room

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References

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  1. ^ Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1979), “изба”, in Български етимологичен речник (in Bulgarian), volume 2 (и – крепя̀), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 15

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