istaba

See also: istabā

Latvian

Istabas

Etymology

Borrowed from Old East Slavic истъба (istŭba, “house, bathhouse”) (cf. Proto-Slavic *jьstъba, Old Church Slavonic истъба (istŭba), Russian изба (izba, “peasant house”)), itself a borrowing from either Latin stuba (“room”) (Spanish estufa (“heating stove”), Portuguese estufa (“greenhouse”), French étuve (“drying oven”)) or its borrowed counterpart in Proto-Germanic, *stuba “(heated) room” (compare German Stube (“room”), English stove). The word was borrowed into Latvian before the 13th century, but its first mention is in 17th-century dictionaries (together with parallel forms ustuba, ustaba, apparently formed by assimilation).

Noun

istaba f (4th declension)

1. room (separate, enclosed living space in a house, apartment, building, etc.)

   liela, gaiša istaba ― big, bright room

   istabas logi, durvis ― room windows, door

   istabas iekārta ― room furniture

   mēbelēta istaba ― furnished room

   ieiet istabā ― to enter the room

2. room (enclosed space in a building for a specific purpose)

   uzgaidāmā istaba ― waiting room

   skolotāju istaba ― teachers' room

3. (usually genitive) room; house (said of something meant to be, or be used, indoors)

   istabas puķes ― room flowers

   istabas lampa ― room, indoor lamp

4. (archaic) peasant house, hut

   istaba stāvēja uz kalnā starp vecu ozolu un egli ― the peasant house stood on the hill between an old oak and a spruce

Declension

Declension of istaba (4th declension)

	singular	plural
nominative	istaba	istabas
genitive	istabas	istabu
dative	istabai	istabām
accusative	istabu	istabas
instrumental	istabu	istabām
locative	istabā	istabās
vocative	istaba	istabas

Derived terms

• darbistaba, darba istaba
• dzīvojamā istaba
• guļamistaba
• vannasistaba
• viesistaba, viesu istaba