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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian изба́ (izbá).
Pronunciation
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
Old Polish
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]
1931 [1465], Rudolf Rauscher, editor, Soudní knihy osvětimské a zátorské z r. 1440-1562, number 133, Oświęcim, Zator:A to tho magi poszadzycz v Osszvyaczymyu u klastorze v yszdbye tu, gdye pravo szedzalo- [A to to maji posędzić w Oświęcimiu w klasztorze w istbie tu, gdzie prawo siedziało]
Descendants
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
Etymology
Inherited from Old Polish izba. Doublet of sztuba.
Pronunciation
- 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
Derived terms
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(adjectives):
(nouns):
Further reading
- izba in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- izba in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Izydor Kopernicki (1875) “izba”, 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) < *istba
- (archaic) room
- (archaic) hovel
Declension
References
- “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).
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Pronunciation
Noun
izba f (relational adjective izbový or (rare) izbený, diminutive izbička or izbietka, augmentative izbisko)
- chamber, room
Declension
Declension of
izba (pattern
žena)
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