Etymograph

English

ezba

Ezba comes from Arabic عِزْبَة ‘estate, manor, housing of rural workers’, from Russian изба́ ‘izba, (peasant's) log hut, cottage’, and ultimately from Old East Slavic изъба.

  1. Old East Slavicmodernизъбаizŭba
  2. Russianmodernизба́izbá‘izba, (peasant's) log hut, cottage’
  3. Ottoman Turkishc. 1300–1928ایزبهizbe‘isolated living quarter, rustic housing, rural cottage, hovel, slum’
  4. Arabicc. 500–presentعِزْبَةʕizba‘estate, manor, housing of rural workers’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1955ezba

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

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  1. Old East Slavicmodernизъбаizŭba
  2. Russianmodernизба́izbá‘izba, (peasant's) log hut, cottage’
  3. Ottoman Turkishc. 1300–1928ایزبهizbe‘isolated living quarter, rustic housing, rural cottage, hovel, slum’
  4. Arabicc. 500–presentعِزْبَةʕizba‘estate, manor, housing of rural workers’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1955ezba

Earliest quotation: 1955, University of Michigan. Museum of Zoolog: “There were six villages and about thirty ezbas (farm…”

Every English word from Old East Slavic изъба

Today it means

noun In the Arab World, a plot of farmland with its associated buildings.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Old East Slavic изъба / ezba

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