izba

or is·ba

[ iz-bah ]

noun
  1. the traditional log house of rural Russia, with an unheated entrance room and a single living and sleeping room heated by a clay or brick stove.

Origin of izba

1
1775–85; <Russian izbá (diminutive istópka), Old Russian istŭba house, bath, cognate with Serbo-Croatian ìzba small room, shack, Czech jizba room, Old Czech jistba, jizdba, all <Slavic *jĭstŭba ≪ Vulgar Latin *extūfa, with short u perhaps <Germanic *stuba;see stove1

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How to use izba in a sentence

  • All day I have sat as in a dumb trance gazing out beyond the izbas and the cabbage fields toward the eternal hills.

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