изба

From Proto-Slavic *jьstъba.

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и́зба • (ízba) f

1. cellar, vault
2. wine cellar

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *jьstъba.

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• Hyphenation: из‧ба

изба • (izba) f (plural изби)

1. Alternative form of визба f (vizba)

• ызба́ (yzbá), изтба́ (iztbá)

Inherited from Old East Slavic изъба́ (izŭbá), истъба́ (istŭbá), from Proto-Slavic *jьstъbà. Cognate with Russian изба́ (izbá), Old Novgorodian ӥꙁба (izba), Old Polish istba.

изба • (izba) f inan (genitive избы, nominative plural избы, genitive plural избъ)

1. izba, (peasant's) log hut, cottage

   Synonym: ха́та (xáta)

• Belarusian: ізба́ (izbá)
• Ukrainian: ізба́ (izbá) (obsolete)

• Voitiv, H. V., editor (2006), “изба, изтба, изъба, ызба”, in Словник української мови XVI – 1-ї пол. XVII ст. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language of 16ᵗʰ – 1ˢᵗ half of 17ᵗʰ c.] (in Ukrainian), numbers 13 (и – іюнь), Lviv: KIUS, →ISBN, page 33
• Zhurawski, A. I., editor (1996), “изба”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Historical Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), numbers 14 (игде – катуючий), Minsk: Navuka i tekhnika, →ISBN, page 28
• Tymchenko, E. K. (2002) “изба”, in Nimchuk, V. V., editor, Матеріали до словника писемної та книжної української мови XV–XVIII ст. [Materials for the Dictionary of the Written and Book Ukrainian Language of 15ᵗʰ–18ᵗʰ cc.] (in Ukrainian), volumes 1 (А – Н), Kyiv, New York: National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the U.S., →ISBN, page 346

Inherited from Old East Slavic изъба, истъба (izŭba, istŭba), from Proto-Slavic *jьstъba, which may be related to Proto-Germanic *stubō (“room, sitting room, oven”) or to French étuve (“heated room, bathroom”), itself from Latin *extupāre.
The phonetic transition /стъб/→/зб/ is associated with the simplification of the combination /стъб/→/сб/ after the fall of the reduced vowels and voicing /сб/→/зб/, compare transition /сд/→/зд/ in здоро́вый (zdoróvyj) from съдоро́въ (sŭdoróvŭ).

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изба́ • (izbá) f inan (genitive избы́, nominative plural и́збы, genitive plural изб, relational adjective избяно́й or избно́й, diminutive избу́шка or избёнка)

1. izba, (peasant's) log hut, cottage

   выноси́ть сор из избы́ ― vynosítʹ sor iz izbý ― to wash one’s dirty linen in public

   Некра́совская же́нщина коня́ на скаку́ остано́вит, в горя́щую и́збу войдёт.

   Nekrásovskaja žénščina konjá na skakú ostanóvit, v gorjáščuju ízbu vojdjót.

   The Nekrasov woman will stop a galloping horse, enter a burning hut. (stereotype of an idealistically heroic Russian woman embodied by Russian writer Nikolay Nekrasov)

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:изба.

Phrases

• изба́-чита́льня f (izbá-čitálʹnja)
• избу́шка на ку́рьих но́жках f (izbúška na kúrʹix nóžkax)
• курна́я изба́ f (kurnája izbá)

Proverbs

• в ка́ждой избу́шке свои́ погрему́шки (v káždoj izbúške svoí pogremúški)

• → English: izba
• → Italian: isba
• → Ottoman Turkish: ازبه (izbe)
  • Turkish: izbe
  • → Arabic: عِزْبَة (ʕizba)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *jьstъba.

• IPA^(key): /ǐzba/
• Hyphenation: из‧ба

ѝзба f (Latin spelling ìzba)

1. room

• “изба”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024