stove
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stove¹
- /stəʊv/ UK
- /stoʊv/ US
- /sʈəʋ/ South Asia
Rhymes with -əʊv, -ʌv
Where it comes from
From Middle Dutch stove and/or Middle Low German stove (compare Dutch stoof (“foot stove”), German Low German Stuve, Stuuv), both from Proto-West Germanic *stubu (“heated room, bathroom, stove”), further origin uncertain. The Germanic words are very old, and are the source of the Slavic and Romance terms. It is often speculated that the Germanic terms were borrowed from Vulgar Latin *extūfa, *extūfāre (“to heat with steam”), from Latin ex- + *tūfus (“hot vapor”), from Ancient Greek τῦφος (tûphos, “fever”).
Cognates
Cognate with Old English stofa (“bathroom, bathhouse”), stufbæþ (“hot-air bath”), Old High German stuba (“heated room, bathroom”) (whence German Stube (“living room, room, parlour”), Hungarian szoba (“room”)), Old Norse stofa (whence Danish stue (“living room, room”), Faroese stova (“living room, house”), Icelandic stofa (“living room”), Norwegian Bokmål stue (“cottage, cabin, living room”), Norwegian Nynorsk stove (“cottage, cabin, living room”), Swedish stuga (“cottage, cabin, living room”)).
Doublet of stufa.
noun stoves
- A heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room. 1815 Robertson Buchanan, Appendix to A Treatise on the Economy of Fuel, and Management of Heat, Especially as it Relates to Heating and Drying by Means of Steam. p. 309. [I]n the countries of modern Europe, the use of stoves prevail throughout the north; while in France and Great Britain, open fires
- A device for heating food, (UK) a cooker.
- A stovetop, with hotplates.
- A hothouse (heated greenhouse). There existed only one specimen of this sacred tree in all Mexico, at least to the knowledge of the Mexicans; […] In spite, however, of the firmest convictions of the indivisibility of this tree — the Manitas, as it is commonly called — it has been propagated by cuttings, some of which are at this m
- A house or room artificially warmed or heated. April 1, 1634, Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, letter to the Lord Deputy When most of the waiters were commanded away to their supper, the Parlour or Stove being near emptied, in came a Company of Musketeers.
verb stoves · stoving · stoved
- To heat or dry, as in a stove. to stove feathers
- To keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat. to stove orange trees
- To jam; to sprain. to stove a finger
stove²
- /stəʊv/ UK
- /stoʊv/ US
- /sʈəʋ/ South Asia
Rhymes with -əʊv, -ʌv
verb
- simple past and past participle of stave [A]ye, a stove boat will make me an immortal by brevet.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: range, cooking stove, kitchen range, kitchen stove, furnace, smelter, kiln, heater, heating, gas, coal, appliance, cooker, fire, burner, straw
Translations
Every language
noun heater
| Español | estufa, calentador |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 난로 nallo, 스토브 seutobeu |
| 日本語 | ストーブ sutōbu, 暖炉 danro |
| 中文 | 火爐 /火炉 huǒlú, 爐 /炉 lú |
| हिन्दी | चूल्हा cūlhā, स्टोव sṭov, तापक tāpak |
| Português | aquecedor, fogão |
| Français | poêle |
| Deutsch | Ofen |
| Italiano | stufa |
| Ελληνικά | θερμάστρα thermástra, σόμπα sómpa |
| Română | sobă |
| Русский | печь pečʹ, пе́чка péčka, буржу́йка buržújka |
| Tiếng Việt | lò, bếp lò, bếp |
| العربية | مَوْقِد mawqid, مِدْفَأَة midfaʔa, مِدْفَأ midfaʔ |
| עברית | תַּנּוּר tanúr, כִּירָה kirá, כִּירַיִם kiráyim |
noun device for heating food
| Español | cocina, estufa, hornillo, calentador |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 스토브 seutobeu, 곤로 gollo |
| 日本語 | 焜炉 |
| 中文 | 爐子 /炉子 lúzi |
| हिन्दी | भट्ठी bhaṭṭhī, तंदूर tandūr, स्टोव sṭov, अँगीठी aṅgīṭhī |
| Kiswahili | jiko |
| Português | fogão |
| Français | fourneau, cuisinière |
| Deutsch | Herd, Kochherd |
| Italiano | fornello |
| Ελληνικά | κουζίνα kouzína |
| Română | aragaz, reșou |
| Русский | плита́ plitá, пли́тка plítka, пе́чка péčka |
| Tiếng Việt | bếp |
| العربية | مَوْقِد mawqid |
| עברית | תַּנּוּר tanúr |
Talk about this word "stove." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/stove. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. stove. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/stove "stove." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/stove.Cite this
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title = {stove},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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