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

  1. stove, oven; heater; room, bedroom

Ancestry of “sobă”, step by step

sobă traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Serbo-Croatian soba

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Serbo-Croatiansobaroom
2Hungarianszobaroom
3Old High Germanstubaa heated room; bathroom; step
4Proto-Germanic*stubu—

via Ottoman Turkish صوبا

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Ottoman Turkishصوباstove, heater, an apparatus for warming a room
2Hungarianszóbaillative singular of szó
3Hungarianszóword; voice; sound
4Proto-Ugricsawɜ—

Words derived from “sobă”

Every word from Proto-Germanic *stubu →Every word from Old High German stuba →Every word from Hungarian szoba →