ストーブ

ストーブ · sutoobu · JLPT N5 · noun

heater

ストーブ — heater

🔥 su-TOH-bu = English stove, borrowed and stretched into Japanese sounds

A loanword from English stove. Japanese adds a vowel after s and v becomes b, giving su-to-o-bu. In Japan it means a room heater, not a cooking stove, so think stove that warms the room rather than one you cook on.

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