izba
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian изба́ (izbá).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɪzˈbɑː/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɑː
Noun
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
- In various languages, especially Slavic, the term may have other modern or archaic/literary meanings.
Translations
a Russian log hut
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Old Polish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Etymology tree
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *jьstъba. First attested in 1413.
Pronunciation
Noun
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
- Polish: izba, izdba (Middle Polish, Central Greater Poland, Western Greater Poland), istba, zdba, źba (Western Greater Poland), jizba (Łowicz)
References
- 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
Alternative forms
- izdba (Middle Polish, Central Greater Poland, Western Greater Poland)
- istba, zdba, źba (Western Greater Poland)
- jizba (Łowicz)
Etymology
Etymology tree
Inherited from Old Polish izba.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈiz.ba/
- (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈiz.ba/
- (Lesser Poland):
- (Masovian Borderland) IPA(key): [ˈiz.ba]
- (Goral):
- (Żywiec) IPA(key): [ˈiz.ba]
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -izba
- Syllabification: iz‧ba
Noun
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
Declension of izba
Derived terms
Related terms
adjectives
nouns
- izdebeczka
- izdebina
Further reading
- 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
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *jьstъba.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ǐzba/
- Hyphenation: iz‧ba
Noun
ìzba f (Cyrillic spelling ѝзба)
Declension
| 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). [1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /izba/, [ˈizba]
- Rhymes: -izba
- Hyphenation: iz‧ba
Noun
izba f (relational adjective izbový or (rare) izbený, diminutive izbička or izbietka, augmentative izbisko)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | izba | izby |
| genitive | izby | izieb |
| dative | izbe | izbám |
| accusative | izbu | izby |
| locative | izbe | izbách |
| instrumental | izbou | izbami |
References
- ^ 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
- “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