izba

See also: izbã, izbă, izbą, and iżba'

English

An izba

Alternative forms

• isba

Etymology

Etymology tree

Old East Slavic изъба (izŭba)

Russian изба́ (izbá)bor.

English izba

Borrowed from Russian изба́ (izbá).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪzˈbɑː/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɑː

Noun

izba (plural izbas)

1. 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

• In various languages, especially Slavic, the term may have other modern or archaic/literary meanings.

Translations

a Russian log hut

• Armenian: իզբա (hy) (izba)
• Azerbaijani: izba (az)
• Belarusian: ізба́ f (izbá)
• Bulgarian: и́зба (bg) f (ízba)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 俄式的木屋 (Éshì de mùwū), 伊茲巴 / 伊兹巴 (yīzībā)

• Chuvash: пӳрт (pürt)
• Czech: izba (cs) f
• Finnish: venäläinen pirtti, venäläinen hirsimökki
• French: isba (fr) f
• Georgian: იზბა (izba)
• German: Isba (de) f
• Greek: ιζμπά f (izmpá)
• Ingrian: pertti
• Italian: isba (it) f
• Japanese: イズバ (izuba)
• Korean: 이즈바 (ijeuba)
• Macedonian: изба f (izba)
• Old East Slavic: изъба f (izŭba), истъба f (istŭba) (also means "room")
• Old Ruthenian: изба́ f (izbá), ызба́ f (yzbá), изтба́ f (iztbá)
• Polish: izba (pl) f
• Portuguese: isba f, isbá (pt) f
• Russian: изба́ (ru) f (izbá)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ѝзба f

  Latin: ìzba (sh) f

• Slovak: izba (sk) f
• Slovene: izba f
• Tatar: ызба (ızba)
• Turkish: izba (tr), izbe (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: ازبه (izbe)

• Ukrainian: ізба́ f (izbá)
• Uzbek: izba (uz)

Old Polish

Alternative forms

• histba, istba, izdba

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *jьstъba. First attested in 1413.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /izba/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /izba/

Noun

izba f

1. (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^[1], 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

• Polish: izba, izdba (Middle Polish, Central Greater Poland, Western Greater Poland), istba, zdba, źba (Western Greater Poland), jizba (Łowicz, Zagórze)

References

• Bożena Sieradzka-Baziur, et al., editors (2011–2015), “izba”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Polish

Alternative forms

• izdba (Middle Polish, Central Greater Poland, Western Greater Poland)
• istba, zdba, źba (Western Greater Poland)
• jizba (Łowicz, Zagórze)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Slavic *jьstъba

Old Polish izba

Polish izba

Inherited from Old Polish izba.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈiz.ba/

• (Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /ˈiz.ba/
• (Masovia):
  • (Łowicz) IPA^(key): [ˈiz.ba]
• (Lesser Poland):
  • (Masovian Borderland) IPA^(key): [ˈiz.ba]
  • (Goral):
    • (Żywiec) IPA^(key): [ˈiz.ba]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -izba
• Syllabification: iz‧ba

Noun

izba f (diminutive izbeczka or izbina or izdebka, related adjective izbowy)

1. (literary or dialectal, Masovian Borderland, Łowicz) chamber, room

   Synonym: pokój

2. (government) chamber, house, office (governmental body)
3. (Żywiec) synonym of strych

Declension

Declension of izba

	singular	plural
nominative	izba	izby
genitive	izby	izb
dative	izbie	izbom
accusative	izbę	izby
instrumental	izbą	izbami
locative	izbie	izbach
vocative	izbo	izby

Derived terms

nouns

• Izba Gmin
• Izba Lordów
• izba wytrzeźwień
• izbica

Related terms

adjectives

• izdebny

nouns

• izdebeczka
• izdebina

Further reading

• “izba”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “izba”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[3] (in Polish)
• Maria Renata Mayenowa, et al., editors (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)‎^[4], 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
• Halina Świderska (1929), “izba”, in Dialekt Księstwa Łowickiego (in Polish), Warsaw, →ISBN, page 104

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *jьstъba.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ǐzba/
• Hyphenation: iz‧ba

Noun

ìzba f (Cyrillic spelling ѝзба)

1. (archaic) room
2. (archaic) hovel

Declension

Declension of izba

	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

• “izba”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

Slovak

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *jьstъba. From either Old High German stuba or a Romance word (compare French étuve).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /izba/, [ˈizba]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -izba
• Hyphenation: iz‧ba

Noun

izba f (relational adjective izbový or (rare) izbený, diminutive izbička or izbietka, augmentative izbisko)

1. chamber, room

Declension

Declension of izba
(pattern žena)

	singular	plural
nominative	izba	izby
genitive	izby	izieb
dative	izbe	izbám
accusative	izbu	izby
locative	izbe	izbách
instrumental	izbou	izbami

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, 2003–2026