صوبا

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

  • صوبه (soba)

Etymology

Borrowed from Hungarian szoba (“stove”), itself from Old High German stuba (“warmed room, oven”).

Noun

صوبا • (soba)

  1. stove, heater, an apparatus for warming a room
  2. hothouse, a heated room for drying greenware

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Turkish: soba
  • → Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܨܘܦܐ (ṣwpā)
  • → North Levantine Arabic: صوبا, صوبيا
  • → Albanian: sobë
  • → Azerbaijani: soba
  • → Greek: σόμπα (sómpa)
  • → Romanian: sobă

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