izba

• isba

Borrowed from Russian изба́ (izbá).

• IPA^(key): /ɪzˈbɑː/

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.

Inherited from Old Polish izdba, istba, izba, from Proto-Slavic *jьstъba, from either Old High German stuba or Vulgar Latin extūfa, extūpa[1]. Doublet of sztuba (“room, school”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈiz.ba/

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• Rhymes: -izba
• Syllabification: iz‧ba

izba f (diminutive izbeczka or izbina or izdebka)

1. (literary) chamber, room

   Synonym: pokój

2. (government) chamber, house, office (governmental body)

• izba in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• izba in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Proto-Slavic *jьstъba.

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

ìzba f (Cyrillic spelling ѝзба) < *istba

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

• “izba” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *jьstъba. From either Old High German stuba or a Romance word (compare French étuve). [1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈizba/

izba f (genitive singular izby, nominative plural izby, genitive plural izieb, declension pattern of žena)

1. chamber, room

• izba in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk