sobă

See also: soba, sobá, sõba, and sobą

Romanian

Alternative forms

• soabă — obsolete or regional
• собэ (sobă) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈso.bə/
• Rhymes: -obə
• Hyphenation: so‧bă

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish صوبا (soba, “stove”), from Hungarian szoba (“room”), from Old High German stuba (“warmed room, oven”).

Noun

sobă f (plural sobe)

1. traditional stove used for heating a room

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Hungarian szoba.

Noun

sobă f (plural sobe)

1. (Banat, Oltenia) room, bedroom

   Synonyms: cameră, dormitor, odaie

Usage notes

The sense of “room” is known to still enjoy currency among the Romanians of Vojvodina.

Declension

Declension of sobă

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(o) sobă	soba	(niște) sobe	sobele
genitive/dative	(unei) sobe	sobei	(unor) sobe	sobelor
vocative	sobă, sobo		sobelor

Further reading

• 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