Noun: istaba
Hyphenation:
Gender: Feminine
Declension:
Singular
| Nominative | istaba |
| Accusative | istabu |
| Genitive | istabas |
| Dative | istabai |
| Instrumental | istabu |
| Locative | istabā |
| Vocative | istaba |
Plural
| Nominative | istabas |
| Accusative | istabas |
| Genitive | istabu |
| Dative | istabām |
| Instrumental | istabām |
| Locative | istabās |
| Vocative | istabas |
Sample Sentences
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liela, gaiša istaba (big, bright room)
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istabas logi, durvis (room windows, door)
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istabas iekārta (room furniture)
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mēbelēta istaba (furnished room)
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ieiet istabā (to enter the room)
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uzgaidāmā istaba (waiting room)
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skolotāju istaba (teachers' room)
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istabas puķes (room flowers)
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istabas lampa (room, indoor lamp)
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istaba stāvēja uz kalnā starp vecu ozolu un egli (the peasant house stood on the hill between an old oak and a spruce)
Nouns inflected like istaba
tulkošana,
secība,
sezona,
saruna,
sajūta,
samaņa,
smarža,
skudra,
sklēra,
muļķība,
pirmdiena,
bebrāda,
skaudība,
kaklarota,
psihiatrija,
vīksna,
vīnoga,
izmaksa,
sešpaka,
melnaugļu aronija, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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). See: Russian Nouns '
изба', Latin Nouns '
stuba', Spanish Nouns '
estufa', Portuguese Nouns '
estufa', French Nouns '
étuve', German Nouns '
Stube', English Nouns '
stove'.
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