sobă

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sobă¹

  • /ˈso.bə/

Rhymes with -obə

Where it comes from

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

noun sobe · soabă · собэ

  1. feminine wood-fired stove used for heating a room

sobă²

  • /ˈso.bə/

Rhymes with -obə

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Hungarian szoba in Transylvania and from Serbo-Croatian sȍba /со̏ба in Banat and Oltenia.

noun sobe · sobă · soba · sobele

  1. Transylvania, feminine room, bedroom

    Similar: cameră, dormitor, odaie

In English

  • fire heater or stove used in place of real fire
  • stove heater
  • oven chamber used for baking or heating

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@misc{soba_2026,
  title = {sobă},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ro/sob%C4%83},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}

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