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- noun a Russian log
hut
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Examples
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Petropaulouski, even in the "isba" of the governor -- who was himself only
Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt Mayne Reid 1850
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It was not the Russian isba, but the Finnish touba.
The Secret of the Night Gaston Leroux 1897
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And yet the country is more thickly populated than upriver, although the pretty Russian _isba_ has given place to the
From Paris to New York by Land Harry De Windt 1894
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The peasant travels on the railway, the woman buys calico, in the _isba_
On the Significance of Science and Art Leo Tolstoy 1869
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The peasant travels on the railway, the woman buys calico, in the _isba_
What to Do? Leo Tolstoy 1869
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The nearest _isba_ where they could hope for aid was yet a long way off; yet rapidly as they dashed onward, the hungry pack were fleeter still.
Fred Markham in Russia The Boy Travellers in the Land of the Czar William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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sionnach commented on the word isba
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:
1775–85; < Russ izbá (dim. istópka), ORuss istŭba house, bath, c. Serbo-Croatian ìzba small room, shack, Czech jizba room
November 23, 2008
rolig commented on the word isba
I would normally spell this izba. I'm curious about where you found it spelled like this, Sionnach.
In Slovene (and I suspect also in CBS Croato-Bosno-Serbian), izba is not only a small room, but a small room with a stove; the stove is what makes it an izba, i.e., it's a place where people live, not a storage room. In his Slovene Etymological Dictionary, Marko Snoj gives this word's origin as, puportedly, Vulgar Latin *extufa (from the verb extufare, "to heat by steam"), a word which also led eventually to the French étuve ("oven; steamroom") and the German Stube (a heated room).
November 24, 2008
sionnach commented on the word isba
Nabokov's translation of Eugene Onegin, page 29:
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November 24, 2008
bilby commented on the word isba
In an Italian translation of Russian folk stories I came across it as izba.
November 24, 2008
rolig commented on the word isba
Nabokov was a brilliant man, but he had his own idiosyncratic ideas about how Russian should be conveyed in English.
November 24, 2008
sionnach commented on the word isba
Well, I think English dictionaries allow both forms.
November 24, 2008
rolig commented on the word isba
Random House Unabridged (used by Dictionary.com) does allow "isba" as an alternative spelling but uses "izba" as its main entry, which makes sense, since the modern Russian word is spelled изба with a "з", which is invariably transliterated as "z".
November 24, 2008