Definition of "izba" [izba]

• A Russian log hut (noun)

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• "She followed the priest as he crossed the little stretch of ground which separated his tiny izba from the church and, just before he stooped to enter his low doorway, called out softly: –"
• "The izba is warm and when we have moved the provisions from your storeroom to ours, there will be plenty of food for all."
• "We walk along a footpath through a patch of weeds to an izba, a log cabin with a straw roof pressing down on two squatty windows, perched on the brink of the forest."