What do you call this in your country?

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zoranss7512@reddit

In my village furna is a bakery. I know the real word is pekara but we all say furna.

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Ok_Efficiency5464@reddit

I think I’ve heard the Word ќумбе for this type of stove

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zoranss7512@reddit

Maybe ќумбе is a smaller one without the oven?

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Apart-Persimmon-38@reddit

Is there anyone in Serbia who wouldn’t call this Smederevac?

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Impressive-Hurry-170@reddit

Küchenhexe.

This translates to 'kitchen witch'.

Yes, Germans were good christians, but give us a thing that lets you cook hot meals fast inside the house without smoke everywhere, then we ditch Jesus for a bit of magic.

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dmd91@reddit

Romanian dialect from Banat this is called "șpoiert"

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Not vlaski. But Romanians living in the Banat area. The local Romanian dialect is called "grai bănățean" and we have a lot of borrowed and modified words from German, Hungarian Serbian... For example one sentence in "grai bănățean" would be "dă la șpoiert s-o afumat soba".

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Chocolategogi@reddit

Nu sa ofomat soba, am deškis piendjera ;)

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von_hier_an_blind@reddit

Hungarian dialect from Banat this is called "sporhet"

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Saintpuppet@reddit

Or Smederevac

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RSDVI01@reddit

Yep. (Because it was manufactured by a conpany from Smederevo)

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No_Huckleberry7790@reddit

Špohert in Hont region in Slovakia

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NightZT@reddit

That's so funny, in German it's Sparherd and in austrian dialect Sporheat

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UsuallySus33@reddit

Its because we took that word from ya.

"Šporet is a borrowed word, from german of the word [der] Sparherd. It consists of two words: sparn (to save) + Herd (hearth/stove), which translates as thrifty hearth."

It came here trou austrian influence tho.

To save is also from sparn > šparati.

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Usual-Leg-4921@reddit

I just looked it up because we use shporet. Old High German sporo → Slavic špora → Albanian shporë → shporet

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NightZT@reddit

Hmm, I actually don't think that's the correct etymology, old high german sporo seems to be the predecessor of "Spur" which means track.

Sparherd literally means "saving oven" or "energy saving oven" form "sparen" meaning saving. I found an old patent of this kind of stoves called "Kochmaschine zur Ersparung des Holzes und Vereinfachung der Kochmethode" which translates to "Cooking machine to save wood and simplify the cooking method", it seems that the name comes from there. In austrian dialect we tend to shift a to o a lot, so "sparen" (saving) gets turned into "sporn" or "spoan". Quite a few of our dialect words got adopted by southern slavs and sporheat seems to be one of those. Same with the (older) german word for potato "Grundbirne" (ground pear) which in our dialect is Krumpirn

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Sandzakguy@reddit

Wusste dass Šporet von Sparherd kommt aber hab mich die ganze Zeit gefragt welcher Sprachfehler "passieren" musste dass es zu Šporet wurde…Österreich san passiert. Ich liebs einfach, vor allem weil ich mich mit beiden Seiten gleichermaßen identifiziere!

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kakafob@reddit

In Bukovina (North of Romania) it is called "sparhait" by very old people, the germanized word for "soba".

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hgaben90@reddit

So that's why it's sparhelt in Hungarian

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SoulEkko@reddit

Grandma's place.

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SirMosesKaldor@reddit

"Soubya" ...my grandma called it that. We're Lebanese.

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SoulEkko@reddit

There was a Tatar guy that was showing me some years back similarities between some Romanian and Persian words. Since most European languages are indexed as Indo-European, a lot of influences came from the East.

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Gospodin-Sun@reddit

its indo-european cause it ended up in europe and in india. starting place was most likely ukraine’s fields.

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SoulEkko@reddit

Then I got them mixed up with the early human migration patterns, since early humans entered Europe around 45k years ago, as you can see it goes through nowadays Iran from the Ehtiopian starting point (which is considered the cradle of civilization).

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Gospodin-Sun@reddit

yea, but you know, time. 40k years is a lot for any language unit to survive. in 40k years a whole lot of things happen on the individual, population, and environmental levels.

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Right_Resist309@reddit

"Soba" we are Turkish.

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No-Championship-4632@reddit

"Soba" is the old-school Slavic word for a "room" in Bulgarian.

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Outrageous_Score1158@reddit

Soba just means room in croatian.

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Specialist_Roll_6455@reddit

Interesting. Soba in Albanian means stove (we call the stove stufë as well) but in my region where we're from, we used to call a certain room soba too. It was the room where my grandpa's room and I have no idea why we call it that way.

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Outrageous_Score1158@reddit

We use both a germanism (šparet) and our own term (štednjak)

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gufted@reddit

Σόμπα yes the same in Greek

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vartholomew-jo@reddit

Soba (Σόμπα) also 🇬🇷

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vividimole@reddit

Same in Greece

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UltraBoY2002@reddit

Is that a loanword from Hungarian?

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SoulEkko@reddit

Indirectly, yes. It was borrowed from Turkish first, which in turn they borrowed it from Hungarian "szoba/room".

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43282348@reddit

just use wiktionary https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sob%C4%83 for English explanations

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SoulEkko@reddit

Had no clue that wiktionary shows Romanian words with English etymological explanations, thanks!

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Nevic_s@reddit

Disgusting

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Fiery_Flamingo@reddit

Soba, aka millennials’ childhood.

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BardhyliX@reddit

Interesting because in Albanian soba is used to refer to a room(not that common anymore mostly with older generations who are now 70+).

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mstfsgdc@reddit

This one is kuzine. Like advanced soba :D

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Extension_Schedule_8@reddit

My favourite is mushrooms

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InformationTop3437@reddit

With some garlic. feta cheese and herbs... Yummmm!

And yes, thin potato slices, only with a bit of salt....

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BWC_Python@reddit

an thin potato slices

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fulltime-sagittarius@reddit

We call this maşınga in the West.

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alababama@reddit

This one in the picture is bit different than soba. I would call this kuzine or maybe kuzine soba.

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kiuuw@reddit

We call it peçka in Edirne

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Business-Gas-5473@reddit

We call it “kuzina” in the northeast Turkey.

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BardhyliX@reddit

Shporet or Kaftor(tho I believe that's something else) nowdays not that common most households no longer have these, but they still remain here and there in rural areas as most people have opted to ditch firewood altogether(the price of it is atrociously high)

I remember when I was a kid my grandma used to use this to bake potatoes for us. This is also where the breakfast was made, dinner too, where sometimes we put clothes on top to dry...

Sigh memories and I'm only a 2004 kid lol.

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No-Championship-4632@reddit

Many of the racist obscenities in Bulgarian related to black people/gypsies you can find in that photo.

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mavidis@reddit

kuzine

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wowoweewow87@reddit

We call it a chimney powered sock propeller

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MomentumSSbrawl@reddit

“Soba” in Turkish

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Palderone@reddit

Hella

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Surranee@reddit

Un poêle 🇫🇷

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NiceConsideration533@reddit

šporet

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Traditional-Gene-478@reddit

Šporget

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thaicat2025@reddit

In Russian it’s called «печка-буржуйка»

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Ok-Explanation-2581@reddit

Soba in Türkiye 👍

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Away-Willingness-522@reddit

soba

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blewpblewps@reddit

In Bulgarian - pechka. Also there are a whole bunch of other related words to the unit itself - eg. Pesht(probably the origin, it being a fire place/spot - pesht+ka = pechka), pechivo/a, peka/pecheno, zapechen/a/o, prepechen/a/o, opechen/a/o, etc.

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zapxod@reddit

All y'all trippin, that's a кюмбе.

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shurdi3@reddit

Лицето ти е кюмбе

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LaurestineHUN@reddit

Pesht is the name of 1/3 of our capital, comes from the same word, probably the thermal water sources made 'smoke'.

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LibertyChecked28@reddit

Its also probable that it had the largest amount of furnaces with smithing capabilities.

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LibertyChecked28@reddit

Fireplace is Огнище.

Pesht means Furnace.

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Worried-Owl-9198@reddit

Peçka or soba

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Hungry_Battery_Eater@reddit

Where do they say pecka?

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Eldanosse@reddit

Peçka was used in our village in Lüleburgaz. May have fallen out of use when the family moved into the town.

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determine96@reddit

We say "pechka" also.

For a room is "стая" (staya).

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SirMosesKaldor@reddit

In Lebanese-Arabic (Dialect/Spoken), Room = ouda. Which I guess comes from the Turkish equivalent "oda" for room.

The proper-Arabic (Modern-Standard aka MSA) word for "room" is "ghour-fa".

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Worried-Owl-9198@reddit

Actually, 'oda' comes from the Old Turkic root 'ot' (fire). It evolved from 'otağ,' which originally meant a nomad tent or a place with a hearth. Over time, it turned into 'oda' to describe partitioned sections of a house and spread to Arabic and Balkan languages during the Ottoman era.

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SirMosesKaldor@reddit

Not that I've been to jail, but I was listening to a Lebanese podcast with a guy that was jailed for 5 years in Lebanon for being wrongfully accused.

In the podcast he describes daily life in jail, and explains the "jail slang". I can't remember most of the words, but the names for things and jail-related expressions like "Guard", "Solitary confinement", "Privileges" and many others etc. are all strange words that we don't say in regular Arabic/Lebanese dialect. And he explains in the podcast that all of these words are of old-Turkish/Ottoman origin, that still survive to this say in Lebanese-jails. I dunno why I found that so fascinating.

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Hungry_Battery_Eater@reddit

ahhh I see, that's interesting

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LibertyChecked28@reddit

BG & BG adjacent region, stemming from the root 'Пека'-Roast (Roasting appliance).

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Hungry_Battery_Eater@reddit

Ah interesting

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Worried-Owl-9198@reddit

Thrace

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Holiday-Handle8819@reddit

In serbia

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kaiser_vfe@reddit

Interesting that peçka is used in Turkish since the word can be traced from Old Slavic and Old Church Slavonic (Old Bulgarian), and its basically a loan word in Turkish. Typically is the other way around

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Fred_Neecheh@reddit

Pećka is a heater, soba is a room in Serbian (very old school way would be odaja for room, cf oda in turkish)

Pekat I think is common to many slavic languages, interesting that turkish has that for oven

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Worried-Owl-9198@reddit

Honestly, we've shared so many words. I was shocked in Belgrade when I was buying rakia; the guy started listing the fruits, and I understood almost everything

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equili92@reddit

Now I am curious, 5 out of 6 major rakijas all have slavic roots: grožđe, šljiva, dunja, kruška, jabuka.... kajsijabis the exception, but that's it

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Worried-Owl-9198@reddit

In our region as well, soba specifically refers to the living room or the parlor where we welcome and entertain guests.

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Inside-Associate-729@reddit

In Hungarian “szoba” (pronounced soba) just means any room in the house. I wonder if this it a leftover from the turkish conquests

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LaurestineHUN@reddit

According to etimological dictionary it comes originally from Latin.

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Eldanosse@reddit

I checked two dictionaries and they both say that the Turkish word 'soba' is a loanword from Hungarian.

One of the dictionaries is an etymological one and it says that Hungarian borrowed it from Late Latin and that the Old High German 'stuba' is from the same root.

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Worried-Owl-9198@reddit

Thats possible but in our case the word soba is used in that sense primarily by our Balkan population. In Turkish, the general name for a room is 'oda'. Our similar words with Hungarian might actually be the original terms you use there as well.

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rujevit_@reddit

In Serbia general name for all rooms is odaja. Nowdays rarely used, but common word writers and poets use

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rujevit_@reddit

In Serbia we have “dnevna soba” and spavaća soba”. Literal translation would be “daily room” and “sleeping room”. “Predsoblje” would be first room you enter in apartment, which connecting other parts of the apartment. Pred-sob-lje like infront-room-justsuffixweoftenuse

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Maarten-Sikke@reddit

In rural Romania, we say odaia to smaller room

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Remote_Succotash@reddit

In Serbian we use the same word - odaja

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ImpactX1244@reddit

replace the e with an i and you'll get a surprise

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Worried-Owl-9198@reddit

Actually we have a very similar word in turkish too lmao

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hardhuca88@reddit

Sobe, Shporet in Albania

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ToiletSenpai@reddit

Gypsy love in Bulgaria

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CountryRegular3411@reddit

In albanian, we call it sobë

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Own_Information3154@reddit

per dhomen e ki fjalen a per shporetin?

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expialidocioussoni@reddit

Soba-Albanian

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Accomplished_Lab9274@reddit

Sobë

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Shnews_Shnews@reddit

Šporet or "Smederevac" (i think it's a specific brand name from the town of Smederevo)

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ae582@reddit

İzmirliler buna yarrrak diyormuş doğru mu?

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jinjo21@reddit

Σόμπα (soba)

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robertotomas@reddit

Wood burning stove

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ACM96@reddit

Soba, both my grand parents have one!

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LightningGoats@reddit

Call what? The room? The pipe? The clothes dryer on the pipe? The stove?

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Ok_Deal2442@reddit

S tier soba.

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Prod_Meteor@reddit

Escaping CO2 cancer.

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HellFireMKX@reddit

Kuzene or soba

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commissaire-67@reddit

Ξυλόσομπα, σόμπα, μασίνα, θερμάστρα,και εδώ στα βόρεια πετσάρκα.

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Reasonable-Past2096@reddit

Tesla

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aisha_was_here@reddit

alfa 🙂‍↕️

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Remarkable-Intern379@reddit

The house heating system😁, or just a- šporet.

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smaakversterker@reddit

mashinga or petchka

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Fit_Dinner6841@reddit

Soba

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Mao_TheDong@reddit

Cotlon

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Mao_TheDong@reddit

This was sobă:

Cu lejancă

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No-Fan6355@reddit

As a child...the center of my universe

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niccocicco@reddit

Sparherd

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Cold-Ad-5892@reddit

Pečka

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AdFinancial5954@reddit

Печка.

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Healthy_Surround8306@reddit

Sobă

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IcyRefrigerator7626@reddit

Soba in Türkiye

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bipolar1_baby325@reddit

Sobë, in Albanian

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Ok_Efficiency4972@reddit

Pechka! 🇧🇬

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Panceltic@reddit

Šporget

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RaspyRock@reddit

We say 'šporhed'.

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BlackKachan@reddit

Granma Happines 🥰

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Particular_End_4917@reddit

Looks like KUZİNE in Turkey

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Particular_End_4917@reddit

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Vitanist112@reddit

Im not sure what exactly are you asking about, but if you're talking about the oven, we call it "pechka" usually

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MagnesiaMapping@reddit

Soba

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InsideChest9429@reddit

Šporhet (Slovenia, koroška)

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EarlyAdeptness4526@reddit

Du jus de chaussette

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AnyHope4444@reddit

🌇Σομπα🌇

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Turbulent-Debate7661@reddit

Soba

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Adventurous-Couple63@reddit

Ξυλόσομπα (wood soba)

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Hreny2@reddit

šporák,... or kachle but kachle is without the stove top

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fortisqp@reddit

We call it poverty all over the world.

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Annoying_guest@reddit

Wood stove

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Defiant-Dare1223@reddit

That's not what that is lol

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Annoying_guest@reddit

Oh? Interesting

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Western_Scallion_551@reddit

Soba, kouzina, machina

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KA-29@reddit

Soba

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One-Needleworker582@reddit

Poverty.

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TheGoix@reddit

“A piece of heaven,” we call it

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7am51N@reddit

In Czechia we call it kachlová kamna or just kamna, kachle, pec, pecka, sporák.

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ThickCaterpillar9867@reddit

Soba or Stufa

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vasjpan002@reddit

Greek sompa, ie soba.. in english, 'oil stove', hence stofa

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Defiant-Dare1223@reddit

Id call it an aga - although thats technically a company name (like hoover), it's what everyone would call it in English

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willem0uce@reddit

Stoof in Dutch

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Alarmed-Artichoke238@reddit

its kuzine, idk why some turkish people here calls that soba

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tokalper@reddit

Also peçka in thrace when it has an oven.

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Faxtrampant@reddit

Soba or maşinga

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Longjumping-Sea-9577@reddit

piec kaflowy

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fulltime-sagittarius@reddit

Interesting to see how many different words we use for this in Turkey. Where I’m from we call this maşınga which is the Aegean region of Turkey. That is only this kind of big ones which is big enough to cook on it. If it is one of the small ones, we call that soba.

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Billarasgr@reddit

Μασίνα (maseena or mashena), depending on where you are in Greece…

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fulltime-sagittarius@reddit

Interesting to see how many different words we use for this in Turkey. Where I’m from we call this maşınga which is the Aegean region of Turkey.

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Serbentus@reddit

We call it good old times, when we were still happy.

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sixthDinasty@reddit

helikopter helikopter

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Equivalent_Rope_8824@reddit

Pechka, Bulgaria.

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BWC_Python@reddit

Soba

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densje@reddit

My grandma used to call it "mašina".

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CucumberExpensive43@reddit

Šporhet

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PenTenTheDandyMan@reddit

Hmm some may call it a "sobă" but where I'm from, we call this a "plită cu lemne" and would also have a separate "sobă" for heating rooms more efficiently.

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OkoMushrooom@reddit

Pečka, Šporet or the place I used to heat my 🍑 at.

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Sad-n-Salty@reddit

Odd, I always preferred my peaches cold

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OkoMushrooom@reddit

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Sunbee_Peanut@reddit

Šporhet / Slovenia

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Frank_cat@reddit

Socks.

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BenderRodriguez14@reddit

Sock rack.

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General-Anywhere7168@reddit

Croatian 🇭🇷: Šdednjak or peć - na drva (on wood)

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Ambitious-Flower87@reddit

Also, špaher or peć

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the-joatmon@reddit

in general “soba”, but this specific type with cooking area is “kuzine”.

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Bobbythebobagain@reddit

Probably derived from French Cuisinière

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Ambitious-Flower87@reddit

From Italian "la cucina". In coastal Croatia we say "kužina" for kitchen

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Drindafin@reddit

Other way around buddy half of French is derived from Albanian

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Bobbythebobagain@reddit

No, word comes from the latin and you were colonized by the Latins.

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ThickCaterpillar9867@reddit

Cuisine comes from French that evolved from Latin that meant kitchen/cook ,the PIE root of cook is “pewk” I think the original commenter is Turkish and not Albanian

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the-joatmon@reddit

yes I am Turkish and I am pretty sure it is a French loan word.

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the-joatmon@reddit

probably, Turkish have tons of loan words from French, because it was the lingua franca when the language reform took place.

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Ujemegaz@reddit

I see what you did there.

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Comfortable_Ruin9412@reddit

Gluposti

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BalanceCompetitive79@reddit

Dom

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Cudno_Ime@reddit

Smederevac

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lunetto@reddit

My grandmother used to call this maşınga.

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Double-Aide-6711@reddit

Sporeti (in the majority of Kosovo Romani dialects

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smurfk@reddit

Depression

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atrixospithikos@reddit

Ξυλόσομπα

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etyar@reddit

Soba

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AnyCommunication3900@reddit

Kuzine

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Sensitive-Wing9289@reddit

We don't call it, we describe it

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Exotic_Cantaloupe_96@reddit

Stofa in greek, there may be other words for it depending on the region.

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FlyingCars2027@reddit

That sounds like estufa, the same word in Spanish

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Dull_Cucumber_3908@reddit

I guess it is a common root which also appears in the english word of stove.

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Exotic_Cantaloupe_96@reddit

Looked up the etymology, interesting journey. From germanic Stube to italian stufa (germanic tribes settling in north italy?). Venetian influence spread it in parts of Greece where it became stofa. Since english has its roots in german the word stove is also from the germanic stube. I guess from italy it also travelled to Spain.

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anastis@reddit

This is exciting! In Greek, you can call it the generic σόμπα (soba, as in heater), BUT at least in my region, it’s mostly called μασίνα (i.e. the machine (but female)). Not only does it heat the room/house, it’s also an oven, a stovetop, and it dries clothes. It truly is an incredible machine!

My dream of a cabin in the woods on the top of a mountain includes one of these.

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Feisty-Volcano@reddit

A Range

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Organic_Refuse4209@reddit

Zoba/Soba in Turkish

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ElNochaPadre@reddit

Socked tea

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Dull_Cucumber_3908@reddit

Σόμπα (soba).

Fun fact: when my grandma died (I was 9 years old) I or my brother (10 years old) had to light it up when we returned from school, because my parents were at work.

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