izba

See also: izbã, izbă, izbą, and iżba'

English

Alternative forms

• isba

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian изба́ (izbá).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪzˈbɑː/
• Rhymes: -ɑː

Noun

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.

Translations

Translations

• Chuvash: пӳрт (pürt)
• Finnish: venäläinen pirtti, venäläinen hirsimökki
• Ingrian: pertti
• Old Ruthenian: изба́ f inan (izbá)
• Russian: изба́ (ru) f inan (izbá)
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can

Old Polish

Alternative forms

• histba, istba, izdba

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

izba f

1. (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]

   • 1931 [1465], Rudolf Rauscher, editor, Soudní knihy osvětimské a zátorské z r. 1440-1562‎^[1], number 133, Oświęcim, Zator:

     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]

Descendants

• Polish: izba

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

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish izba. Doublet of sztuba.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈiz.ba/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -izba
• Syllabification: iz‧ba

Noun

izba f (diminutive izbeczka or izbina or izdebka, related adjective izbowy)

1. (literary) chamber, room

   Synonym: pokój

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

Declension

Declension of izba

	singular	plural
nominative	izba	izby
genitive	izby	izb
dative	izbie	izbom
accusative	izbę	izby
instrumental	izbą	izbami
locative	izbie	izbach
vocative	izbo	izby

Derived terms

nouns

• Izba Gmin
• Izba Lordów
• izba wytrzeźwień
• izbica

 

Related terms

adjectives

• izdebny

 

nouns

• izdebeczka
• izdebina

 

Further reading

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

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *jьstъba.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

ìzba f (Cyrillic spelling ѝзба) < *istba

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

Declension

Declension of izba

	singular	plural
nominative	ìzba	izbe
genitive	izbe	ìzbī
dative	izbi	izbama
accusative	izbu	izbe
vocative	izbo	izbe
locative	izbi	izbama
instrumental	izbom	izbama

References

• “izba”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

Slovak

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈizba/

Noun

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

1. chamber, room

Declension

Declension of izba

	singular	plural
nominative	izba	izby
genitive	izby	izieb
dative	izbe	izbám
accusative	izbu	izby
locative	izbe	izbách
instrumental	izbou	izbami

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, 2024