stufa

stove

noun STOO-fah Rare

Origin: From Germanic 'stuba' (heated room).

Also means

heater

Usage Note

Stufa covers both a wood-burning or gas stove used for heating (stufa a legna, stufa a gas) and, in some regional usages, a kitchen cooking stove (more commonly cucina or fornello). A false friend risk: stufo/stufa as an adjective means 'fed up, bored' — Sono stufo di aspettare ('I'm fed up waiting') — entirely unrelated to the noun.

Examples

"La stufa a legna riscaldava tutta la stanza."

Natural Translation

The wood stove heated the whole room.

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