sobë

Albanian

Etymology

Ultimately from Hungarian szoba (“stove”), either through Ottoman Turkish صوبا (soba, “stove”) or Serbo-Croatian sȍba／со̏ба (“room; (archaic) stove”), possibly even a conflation of both sources. Doublet of stufë.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsobə/
• Rhymes: -obə

Noun

sobë f (plural soba)

1. stove

   Synonyms: stufë, shporet, koftor, porr

2. (regional or archaic) room, chamber

   Synonyms: dhomë, odë

   sobë me oxhak ― fireplace room

   sobë e teshavet ― wardrobe, closet

   sobë me çymllek ― stove room; steam bath

   1. fireplace room
   2. women's chamber
   3. cell (in a monastery or nunnery)

      Synonym: qeli

3. (archaic) steam bath and the room it is taken in

   Synonym: hamam

Derived terms

• sobaxhi
• sobë e madhe
• sobëtar

 

References

• “sób/ë,~a”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1] (in Albanian), 1980, page 1771b
• Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “sobë”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 427
• Mann, S. E. (1948) “sobë”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 455b
• Jungg, G. (1895) “sob”, in Fialuur i voghel sccȣp e ltinisct [Small Albanian–Italian dictionary], page 142b
• Meyer, G. (1891) “sobɛ”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 389
• Rossi, F. (1875) “sòb”, in Vocabolario della lingua epirotica–italiana (in Italian), page 1234f.
• Bardhi, F. (1635) Dictionarium Latino Epiroticum (overall work in Latin and Albanian), page 45: “laconicum, stuffa — sobbe”