صوبا

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• صوبه (soba)

Etymology

Borrowed from Hungarian szoba (“stove”), itself from Old High German stuba (“warmed room, oven”).

Noun

صوبا • (soba)

1. stove, heater, an apparatus for warming a room
2. hothouse, a heated room for drying greenware

Derived terms

• صوباجی (sobacı, “maker or seller of stoves”)

Descendants

• Turkish: soba
• → Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܨܘܦܐ (ṣwpā)
• → Azerbaijani: soba
• → Romanian: sobă

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “soba”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4275
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “صوبا”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 303b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صوبا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 770
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Hypocaustum”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 716
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “صوبا”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3001
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “soba”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صوبا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1189