sobă
Romanian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- soabă — obsolete or regional
- собэ (sobă) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling
Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish صوبا (soba, “stove”), from Hungarian szoba (“room”), from Old High German stuba (“warmed room, oven”).
Noun
[edit]sobă f (plural sobe)
- traditional stove used for heating a room
Etymology 2
[edit]Borrowed from Hungarian szoba.
Noun
[edit]sobă f (plural sobe)
Usage notes
[edit]The sense of “room” is known to still enjoy currency among the Romanians of Vojvodina.
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
| nominative-accusative | sobă | soba | sobe | sobele | |
| genitive-dative | sobe | sobei | sobe | sobelor | |
| vocative | sobă, sobo | sobelor | |||
Further reading
[edit]- sobă in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
- Iorgu Iordan, Alexandru Graur, Ion Coteanu, editors (1992), “sóbă”, in Dicționarul Limbii Române[1], volume 10, part 4, Bucharest: Academy of the Socialist Republic of Romania, page 1153
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- Rhymes:Romanian/obə
- Rhymes:Romanian/obə/2 syllables
- Romanian terms borrowed from Ottoman Turkish
- Romanian terms derived from Ottoman Turkish
- Romanian terms derived from Hungarian
- Romanian terms derived from Old High German
- Romanian lemmas
- Romanian nouns
- Romanian countable nouns
- Romanian feminine nouns
- Romanian terms borrowed from Hungarian
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