stove

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stəʊv/
• IPA^(key): /stoʊv/

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• Rhymes: -əʊv

Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle Dutch and/or (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle Low German stove (compare Dutch stoof), possibly from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *stubō (“room, living room, heated room”), or borrowed from Romance. Cognate with Old High German stuba (whence German Stube), Old English stofa, stofu (“bathroom, bathhouse”), Old Norse stofa (whence Icelandic stofa (“living room”), Norwegian stove and Danish and Norwegian stue and Swedish stuga).

Noun

stove (plural stoves)

1. A heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room.
   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 8, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     We toted in the wood and got the fire going nice and comfortable. Lord James still set in one of the chairs and Applegate had cabbaged the other and was hugging the stove.

2. A device for heating food, (UK) a cooker.
3. (chiefly UK) A hothouse (heated greenhouse).
   • 1850, M. A. Burnett, Plantae utiliores: or illustrations of useful plants, employed in the arts and medicine, part 8:

     There existed only one specimen of this sacred tree in all Mexico, at least to the knowledge of the Mexicans; […] In spite, however, of the firmest convictions of the indivisibility of this tree — the Manitas, as it is commonly called — it has been propagated by cuttings, some of which are at this moment thriving in some of the larger stoves of our modern collectors.

   • 1854, in The Horticultural Review and Botanical Magazine, volume 4, page 208:

     Let but these facts lie contrasted with the treatment they usually receive in the stoves of this country, and the reason why they never grow to any considerable size, attain to any degree of perfection, or flourish to any extent […]

4. (dated) A house or room artificially warmed or heated.
   • (Can we date this quote by Earl of Strafford and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     When most of the waiters were commanded away to their supper, the parlour or stove being nearly emptied, in came a company of musketeers.

   • (Can we date this quote by Burton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     How tedious is it to them that live in stoves and caves half a year together, as in Iceland, Muscovy, or under the pole!

Derived terms

• hobo stove

Translations

heater

• Afrikaans: stoof, verwarmer
• Albanian: sobë (sq) f
• Arabic: مَوْقِد m (mawqid), مِدْفَأَة f (midfaʔa), مِدْفَأ m (midfaʔ)
• Armenian: վառարան (hy) (vaṙaran)
• Assamese: চৌকা (souka)
• Azerbaijani: soba (az), peç
• Basque: estufa, estufaren
• Belarusian: печ f (pječ), пе́чка f (pjéčka)
• Bulgarian: пе́чка (bg) f (péčka)
• Catalan: estufa f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 火爐／火炉 (zh) (huǒlú), 火炉 (zh) (huǒlú), 爐／炉 (zh) (lú), 炉 (zh) (lú)

• Crimean Tatar: (northern dialect also peşqa) soba
• Czech: kamna (cs), pec (cs) f
• Dutch: kachel (nl), oven (nl)
• Erzya: уштом (uštom)
• Esperanto: stovo
• Finnish: uuni (fi), kamiina (fi)
• French: poêle (fr) m
• Galician: estufa f
• Georgian: ღუმელი (ɣumeli)
• German: Ofen (de) m
• Greek: θερμάστρα (el) f (thermástra), σόμπα (el) f (sómpa)
• Hebrew: תַּנּוּר (he) m (tanúr)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: kályha (hu)
• Ido: furnelo (io)
• Indonesian: kompor (id), tungku (id)
• Irish: sorn m
• Italian: stufa (it) f
• Japanese: ストーブ (ja) (sutōbu), 暖炉 (だんろ, danro)
• Kazakh: пеш (kk) (peş)
• Korean: 난로 (ko) (nallo)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Kyrgyz: печка (pecka), печь (pec)
• Latvian: krāsns (lv) f
• Macedonian: пе́чка f (péčka)
• Maltese: stufi f
• Mongolian: пийшин (mn) (piišin), зуух (mn) (zuux)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ovn (no) m

• Persian: بخاری (fa) (boxâri)
• Polish: kuchenka (pl) f, piecyk (pl) m
• Portuguese: aquecedor (pt) m, fogão (pt) m
• Romanian: sobă (ro) f
• Russian: печь (ru) f (pečʹ), пе́чка (ru) f (péčka), буржу́йка (ru) f (buržújka) (dated, colloquial)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пећ f

  Roman: peć (sh) f

• Slovak: pec f
• Slovene: peč (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: kamjeny pl

• Spanish: estufa (es) f
• Sundanese: hawu
• Swedish: kamin (sv) c
• Tagalog: katan, tuluan
• Tajik: печка (tg) (pečka), танӯр (tg) (tanür), бухорӣ (buxorī)
• Tigrinya: እቶን (ʾəton)
• Turkish: soba (tr)
• Turkmen: peç
• Ukrainian: піч f (pič), пі́чка f (píčka)
• Uzbek: pechka (uz), pech (uz)
• Vietnamese: lò (vi), bếp lò
• Walloon: stouve (wa) m or f, fornea (wa) m
• Yup'ik: kaminiaq
• Zulu: isitofu class 7

device for heating food

• Afrikaans: stoof
• Apache:

  Jicarilla: asʼdóoha

• Arabic: مَوْقِد m (mawqid)
• Armenian: սալօջախ (hy) (salōǰax), վառարան (hy) (vaṙaran)
• Azerbaijani: ocak (az), peç
• Basque: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: пе́чка f (pjéčka), пліта́ f (plitá)
• Brunei Malay: tambak
• Bulgarian: пе́чка (bg) f (péčka)
• Burmese: မီးဖို (my) (mi:hpui)
• Catalan: cuina (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 煮食爐／煮食炉, 煮食炉 (zyu² sik⁶ lou⁴)

  Mandarin: 爐子／炉子 (zh) (lúzi), 炉子 (zh) (lúzi)

• Crimean Tatar: furun
• Danish: komfur (da) n
• Dutch: fornuis (nl)
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: hella (fi), liesi (fi); keitin (fi)
• French: fourneau (fr) m, cuisinière (fr)
• Galician: cociña (gl) f
• Georgian: ღუმელი (ɣumeli), ქურა (kura)
• German: Herd (de) m, Kochherd m
• Greek: κουζίνα (el) f (kouzína)
• Hebrew: תַּנּוּר (he) m (tanúr)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: tűzhely (hu), kemence (hu)
• Ido: furnelo (io)
• Irish: sorn m, sornóg f
• Italian: fornello (it)
• Japanese: 焜炉 (ja) (konro こんろ)
• Kazakh: пеш (kk) (peş)
• Khmer: ជើងក្រាន (cəəŋ kraan)
• Korean: 스토브 (seutobeu)
• Kyrgyz: печка (pecka), печь (pec)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Lao: ເຕົາ (tao), ເຕົາໄຟ (lo) (tao fai)
• Latvian: krāsns (lv) f, plīts f
• Macedonian: шпо́рет m (špóret)
• Malay: dapur
• Maori: tō
• Mongolian: зуух (mn) (zuux)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ovn (no) m

• Persian: اجاق (fa) (ojâq)
• Portuguese: fogão (pt) m
• Quechua: q'uncha
• Romanian: aragaz (ro) n, reșou (ro) n
• Russian: плита́ (ru) f (plitá), пли́тка (ru) f (plítka), пе́чка (ru) f (péčka)
• Scottish Gaelic: stòbh m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: штедњак m, шпорет m

  Roman: štednjak (sh) m, šporet (sh) m

• Slovak: sporák m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: pjacyk m, kamjenki pl

• Spanish: cocina (es) f, estufa (es) f, hornillo (es) m, calentador (es) m
• Swahili: jiko (sw)
• Swedish: spis (sv) c
• Tagalog: kalan, kusinilya (gas stove)
• Tajik: печка (tg) (pečka), танӯр (tg) (tanür)
• Tamil: சுபாலிகை (ta) (cupālikai)
• Telugu: పొయ్యి (te) (poyyi)
• Thai: เตา (th) (dtao), เตาไฟ (dtao-fai)
• Turkish: ocak (tr)
• Turkmen: ojak, peç, plita
• Ukrainian: плита́ (uk) f (plytá), пли́тка f (plýtka)
• Uyghur: ئوچاق (ochaq)
• Uzbek: oʻchoq (uz), pechka (uz), plita (uz)
• Vietnamese: bếp (vi)
• Yup'ik: pelit'aaq, kaminiaq

heated greenhouse — see hothouse

Verb

1. (transitive) To heat or dry, as in a stove.

   to stove feathers

2. (transitive) To keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat.

   to stove orange trees

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)

Translations

to heat or dry

• Finnish: lämmittää (fi) (to heat); kuivata (fi), kuivattaa (fi), kuivatella (fi) (to dry)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

to keep warm

• Finnish: lämmitellä, lämmittää (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “stove”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Etymology 2

Verb

stove

1. simple past and past participle of stave
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, chapters 7 and 36:

     [A]ye, a stove boat will make me an immortal by brevet.

     "A dead whale or a stove boat!"

Anagrams

• Stevo, Votes, ovest, vetos, votes

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Dutch

Verb

stove

1. (deprecated template usage) (archaic) singular past subjunctive of stuiven
2. (deprecated template usage) (archaic) singular present subjunctive of stoven