izba
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian изба́ (izbá).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɪzˈbɑː/
- Rhymes: -ɑː
Noun
izba (plural izbas)
- 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.
Translations
Translations
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Old Polish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *jьstъba. First attested in 1413.
Pronunciation
Noun
izba f
- (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]
Descendants
- Polish: izba, izdba (Central Greater Poland, Western Greater Poland), istba, zdba, źba (Western Greater Poland)
References
- 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 [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
Polish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Old Polish izba. Doublet of sztuba.
Pronunciation
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -izba
- Syllabification: iz‧ba
Noun
izba f (diminutive izbeczka or izbina or izdebka, related adjective izbowy)
- (literary) chamber, room
- Synonym: pokój
- (government) chamber, house, office (governmental body)
- (Żywiec) synonym of strych
Declension
Declension of izba
Derived terms
Related terms
adjectives
nouns
- izdebeczka
- izdebina
Further reading
- izba in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- izba in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Izydor Kopernicki (1875) “izba”, in “Spostrzeżenia nad właściwościami językowémi w mowie Górali Bieskidowych z dodatkiem słowniczka wyrazów góralskich”, in Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzeń Wydziału Filologicznego Akademii Umiejętności (I), volume 3, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 371
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *jьstъba.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ǐzba/
- Hyphenation: iz‧ba
Noun
ìzba f (Cyrillic spelling ѝзба)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | ìzba | izbe |
| genitive | izbe | ìzbī |
| dative | izbi | izbama |
| accusative | izbu | izbe |
| vocative | izbo | izbe |
| locative | izbi | izbama |
| instrumental | izbom | izbama |
Further reading
- “izba”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
Slovak
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *jьstъba. From either Old High German stuba or a Romance word (compare French étuve). [1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈizba]
Noun
izba f (relational adjective izbový or (rare) izbený, diminutive izbička or izbietka, augmentative izbisko)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | izba | izby |
| genitive | izby | izieb |
| dative | izbe | izbám |
| accusative | izbu | izby |
| locative | izbe | izbách |
| instrumental | izbou | izbami |
References
- ^ Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1979), “изба”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 2 (и – крепя̀), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 15
Further reading
- “izba”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025