istaba

Borrowed from Old East Slavic истьба (istĭba, “house, bathhouse”) (cf. Proto-Slavic *jьstъba, Old Church Slavonic истьба (istĭba), Russian изба (izba, “peasant house”)), itself a borrowing from either Latin stuba (“room”) (Spanish estufa (“heating stove”), Portuguese estufa (“greenhouse”), French étuve (“drying oven”)) or its borrowed counterpart in Proto-Germanic, *stuba “(heated) room” (compare German Stube (“room”), English stove). The word was borrowed into Latvian before the 13th century, but its first mention is in 17th-century dictionaries (together with parallel forms ustuba, ustaba, apparently formed by assimilation).^[1]

istaba f (4th declension)

1. room (separate, enclosed living space in a house, apartment, building, etc.)

   liela, gaiša istaba ― big, bright room

   istabas logi, durvis ― room windows, door

   istabas iekārta ― room furniture

   mēbelēta istaba ― furnished room

   ieiet istabā ― to enter the room

2. room (enclosed space in a building for a specific purpose)

   uzgaidāmā istaba ― waiting room

   skolotāju istaba ― teachers' room

3. (usually genitive) room; house (said of something meant to be, or be used, indoors)

   istabas puķes ― room flowers

   istabas lampa ― room, indoor lamp

4. (archaic) peasant house, hut

   istaba stāvēja uz kalnā starp vecu ozolu un egli ― the peasant house stood on the hill between an old oak and a spruce

• darbistaba, darba istaba
• dzīvojamā istaba
• guļamistaba
• vannasistaba
• viesistaba, viesu istaba