izba
Appearance
English
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Russian изба́ (izbá).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ɪzˈbɑː/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɑː
Noun
[edit]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.
Usage notes
[edit]- In various languages, especially Slavic, the term may have other modern or archaic/literary meanings.
Translations
[edit]a Russian log hut
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Old Polish
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Etymology tree
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *jьstъba. First attested in 1413.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]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]
Descendants
[edit]- Polish: izba, izdba (Middle Polish, Central Greater Poland, Western Greater Poland), istba, zdba, źba (Western Greater Poland), jizba (Łowicz)
References
[edit]- 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
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- izdba (Middle Polish, Central Greater Poland, Western Greater Poland)
- istba, zdba, źba (Western Greater Poland)
- jizba (Łowicz)
Etymology
[edit]Etymology tree
Inherited from Old Polish izba.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈiz.ba/
- (Lesser Poland):
Noun
[edit]izba f (diminutive izbeczka or izbina or izdebka, related adjective izbowy)
- (literary or dialectal, Masovian Borderland) chamber, room
- Synonym: pokój
- (government) chamber, house, office (governmental body)
- (Żywiec) synonym of strych
Declension
[edit]Declension of izba
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]adjectives
nouns
Further reading
[edit]- izba in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- izba in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Maria Renata Mayenowa; Stanisław Rospond; Witold Taszycki; Stefan Hrabec; Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023), “izba”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- “IZBA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 19.09.2018
- Izydor Kopernicki (1875), “izba”, in “Spostrzeżenia nad właściwościami językowémi w mowie Górali Bieskidowych z dodatkiem słowniczka wyrazów góralskich”, in Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzeń Wydziału Filologicznego Akademii Umiejętności (I)[2], volume 3, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 371
- Małgorzata Kapusta (2017), “izba”, in Mowa mieszkańców pogranicza Mazowsza (na przykładzie gminy Głowaczów w powiecie kozienickim) (in Polish), Warsaw: Elipsa, →ISBN, page 78
Serbo-Croatian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Slavic *jьstъba.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ìzba f (Cyrillic spelling ѝзба)
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | ìzba | izbe |
| genitive | izbe | ìzbī |
| dative | izbi | izbama |
| accusative | izbu | izbe |
| vocative | izbo | izbe |
| locative | izbi | izbama |
| instrumental | izbom | izbama |
Further reading
[edit]- “izba”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026
Slovak
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Slavic *jьstъba. From either Old High German stuba or a Romance word (compare French étuve). [1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]izba f (relational adjective izbový or (rare) izbený, diminutive izbička or izbietka, augmentative izbisko)
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | izba | izby |
| genitive | izby | izieb |
| dative | izbe | izbám |
| accusative | izbu | izby |
| locative | izbe | izbách |
| instrumental | izbou | izbami |
References
[edit]- ^ 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
[edit]- “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, 2003–2026
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