sobă
See also: Appendix:Variations of "soba"
Romanian
Alternative forms
- soabă — obsolete or regional
- собэ (sobă) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈso.bə/
- Rhymes: -obə
- Hyphenation: so‧bă
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish صوبا (soba, “stove”), from Hungarian szoba (“room”), from Old High German stuba (“warmed room, oven”).
Noun
sobă f (plural sobe)
- wood-fired stove used for heating a room
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Hungarian szoba in Transylvania and from Serbo-Croatian sȍba / со̏ба in Banat and Oltenia.[1]
Noun
sobă f (plural sobe)
Usage notes
The sense of “room” is known to still enjoy currency among the Romanians of Vojvodina.[2]
Declension
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
| nominative-accusative | sobă | soba | sobe | sobele | |
| genitive-dative | sobe | sobei | sobe | sobelor | |
| vocative | sobă, sobo | sobelor | |||
Further reading
- “sobă”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025
- Iorgu Iordan, Alexandru Graur, Ion Coteanu, editors (1992), “sóbă”, in Dicționarul Limbii Române[1], volume 10, part 4, Bucharest: Academy of the Socialist Republic of Romania, page 1153
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References
- ^ Ion Mării (December 1966) “Studiind elementul sîrbesc în lexicul graiului din Toager [Studying the Serbian element in the vocabulary of the dialect of Toager]”, Note [Notes], in Emil Petrovici, editor, Cercetări de lingvistică [Linguistic studies] (in Romanian), year 11, number 2, Cluj: Romanian Academy
- ^ Maria MarinViviana-Monica Fătu IlieMara-Iuliana Mantaet al. (2022) Graiuri Românești din Banatul Sârbesc: studiu lingvistic, texte dialectale, glosar [Romanian dialects from Serbian Banat: linguistic study, dialectal texts, glossary] (in Romanian), Bucharest: Romanian Academy, →ISBN