Where does “sobă” come from?
sobă (Romanian) comes from Serbo-Croatian soba, from Hungarian szoba, from Old High German stuba, from Proto-Germanic *stubu.
sobă (Romanian): stove, oven; heater; room, bedroom
Definitions
- stove, oven; heater; room, bedroom
Ancestry of “sobă”, step by step
sobă traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Serbo-Croatian soba
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Serbo-Croatian | soba | room |
| 2 | Hungarian | szoba | room |
| 3 | Old High German | stuba | a heated room; bathroom; step |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | *stubu | — |
via Ottoman Turkish صوبا
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Ottoman Turkish | صوبا | stove, heater, an apparatus for warming a room |
| 2 | Hungarian | szóba | illative singular of szó |
| 3 | Hungarian | szó | word; voice; sound |
| 4 | Proto-Ugric | sawɜ | — |
Words derived from “sobă”