sobă

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See also: soba, sobá, sõba, and sobą

Romanian

Alternative forms

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)

  1. 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)

  1. (Banat, Oltenia, Transylvania) room, bedroom
    Synonyms: cameră, dormitor, odaie
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

References

  1. ^ Ion Mării (1966 December) “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
  2. ^ 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