izba

• isba

Borrowed from Russian изба́ (izbá).

• IPA^(key): /ɪzˈbɑː/
• Rhymes: -ɑː

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.

• histba, istba, izdba

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

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

izba f

1. hut; house
   • 1920 [1413], Marceli Handelsman, Antoni Rybarski, Kazimierz Tymieniecki, editors, Najdawniejsze księgi sądowe mazowieckie, volume I, number 1951:

     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, number 133:

     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]

• Polish: izba

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

Inherited from Old Polish izba. Doublet of sztuba.

• 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

Inherited 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 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, 2024