sofa

See also Sofa, sofá, sofà, and sófa

English

A woman on a sofa.

Wikipedia

Etymology

Derived from Arabic صفة (súffa, “sofa, long seat made of stone or brick”), from Aramaic צפא (ṣipā’, “mat”). The word may have entered European languages via Turkish or through the Moorish occupation of Spain.

Pronunciation

• enPR: sō'fə, IPA: /ˈsəʊfə/, X-SAMPA: /"s@Uf@/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -əʊfə

Noun

sofa (plural sofas)

1. An upholstered seat, typically having sides and back, long enough to accommodate two or more people.

Synonyms

• couch
• divan
• settee

Translations

upholstered seat

• Arabic: أريكة (ar) (arīka) f

  Egyptian Arabic: كنبة (kánaba) f

• Armenian: բազմոց (hy) (bazmoc’)
• Azeri: divan (az)
• Bulgarian: диван (bg) (divan) n
• Catalan: sofà (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 沙發 (cmn), 沙发 (cmn) (shāfā)

  Min Nan: 膨椅 (nan) (phòng-í)

• Czech: pohovka (cs) f, gauč (cs) m
• Danish: sofa (da)
• Dutch: bank f m in Holland, zetel m, sofa m
• Esperanto: kanapo (eo), sofo (eo)
• Estonian: sohva (et)
• Finnish: sohva (fi)
• French: canapé (fr) m
• Galician: sofá m
• German: Sofa (de) n
• Greek: καναπές (el) (kanapés) m
• Hebrew: ספה (he) (sappah) f
• Hindi: सोफ़ा (hi) (sofā) m
• Hungarian: dívány (hu)

• Icelandic: sófi (is) m
• Interlingua: sofa (ia)
• Italian: divano (it) m, sofà (it) m
• Japanese: ソファー (ja) (sofā), 長椅子 (ja) (ながいす, naga-isu)
• Jèrriais: jontchéthe f, sofa m
• Korean: 소파 (ko) (sopa)
• Kurdish: qenepe (ku)
• Northern Sami: suffá
• Norwegian: sofa (no)
• Persian: نیمکت (fa) (nimkat)
• Polish: kanapa (pl) f
• Portuguese: sofá (pt) m
• Romanian: canapea f, canapele f pl
• Russian: софа (ru) (sofá) f, диван (ru) (diván) m
• Scottish Gaelic: langasaid f, suaineachan m, sunnag f
• Serbo-Croatian: ležaj (sh) m
• Spanish: sofá (es) m
• Swedish: soffa (sv) c
• Thai: โซฟา (th) (soh-faa)
• Turkish: kanepe (tr)
• Urdu: صوفہ (ur) (sofā) m
• Vietnamese: ghế xô-fa (vi)

See also

• love seat

Anagrams

• as of
• oafs

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Danish

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Noun

sofa c (singular definite sofaen, plural indefinite sofaer)

1. sofa, couch, divan, settee

Inflection

    Inflection of sofa

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative, dative and accusative	sofa	sofaen	sofaer	sofaerne
genitive	sofas	sofaens	sofaers	sofaernes

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French

sofa

Etymology

From English sofa

Pronunciation

• IPA: /so.fa/
• Rhymes: -a
• Homophone: sofas

Noun

sofa m (plural sofas)

1. couch; sofa

Synonyms

• (couch): canapé

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Guernésiais

Etymology

From English sofa.

Noun

sofa m (plural sofas)

1. sofa

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Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse sofa, from Proto-Germanic *swefaną.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈsɔːva/
• Rhymes: -ɔːva

Verb

sofa strong verb (third person singular past indicative svaf, third person plural past indicative sváfum, supine sofið)

1. (intransitive) to sleep

   Ekki vekja hana, hún er sofandi.

   Don't wake her up, she's sleeping.

Derived terms

• fara að sofa (to go to bed)
• sofa hjá (to sleep with, to have sex with)
• sofa yfir sig (to oversleep)
• sofa laust (to sleep lightly)
• sofandi (sleeping)

Related terms

• sofna
• syfja

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Interlingua

Noun

sofa (plural sofas)

1. (item of furniture) sofa

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Jèrriais

Etymology

From English sofa.

Noun

sofa m (plural sofas)

1. sofa

Synonyms

• jontchéthe

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Norwegian

Noun

sofa (m, Bokmål and Nynorsk)

1. sofa, couch

Inflection

    Inflection of sofa

	indefinite singular	definite singular	indefinite plural	definite plural
Bokmål m	sofa	sofaen	sofaer	sofaene
Nynorsk m	sofa	sofaen	sofaar	sofaane

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Serbo-Croatian

Noun

sòfa f (Cyrillic spelling со̀фа)

1. (Serbia) sofa

Declension

    declension of sofa

	singular	plural
nominative	sofa	sofe
genitive	sofe	sofa
dative	sofi	sofama
accusative	sofu	sofe
vocative	sofo	sofe
locative	sofi	sofama
instrumental	sofom	sofama