stove
n. countablen. a large piece of kitchen equipment used for cooking food. It usually has a flat top with burners for pans and an oven inside for baking.
n. an apparatus for cooking or heating that operates by burning fuel or using electricity. Modern kitchen versions typically integrate a cooktop with an internal oven chamber.
She put the kettle on the stove to make some tea.
The chef turned down the heat on the stove to let the sauce simmer slowly.
While traditional wood-burning stoves required constant attention to maintain a steady temperature, modern induction models offer precise thermal control through electromagnetic fields.
From Middle Dutch stove and/or Middle Low German stove (compare Dutch stoof (“foot stove”), German Low German Stuve, Stuuv), both from Proto-West Germanic stubu (“heated room, bathroom, stove”), further origin uncertain. The Germanic words are very old, and are the source of the Slavic and Romance terms. It is often speculated that the Germanic terms were borrowed from Vulgar Latin extūfa, extūfāre (“to heat with steam”), from Latin ex- + tūfus (“hot vapor”), from Ancient Greek τῦφος (tûphos, “fever”). Cognates Cognate with Old English stofa (“bathroom, bathhouse”), stufbæþ (“hot-air bath”), Old High German stuba (“heated room, bathroom”) (whence German Stube (“living room, room, parlour”), Hungarian szoba (“room”)), Old Norse stofa (whence Danish stue (“living room, room”), Faroese stova (“living room, house”), Icelandic stofa (“living room”), Norwegian Bokmål stue (“cottage, cabin, living room”), Norwegian Nynorsk stove (“cottage, cabin, living room”), Swedish stuga (“cottage, cabin, living room”)). Doublet of stufa.
In British English, the top part is often called a 'hob', while 'stove' frequently refers to the entire appliance or a heating device.