صوبا
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- صوبه (soba)
Etymology
Borrowed from Hungarian szoba (“stove”), from Old High German stuba (“warmed room, oven”).
Noun
صوبا • (soba)
- stove, heater, an apparatus for warming a room
- hothouse, a heated room for drying greenware
Derived terms
- صوباجی (sobacı, “maker or seller of stoves”)
Descendants
- Turkish: soba
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “soba”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4275
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “صوبا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 770
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Hypocaustum”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 716
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “صوبا”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 3001
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “soba”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “صوبا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1189