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Romanian
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)
- (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
Further reading
References
- ^ 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
- ^ 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