sofa
English
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Etymology
Borrowed from French sofa, ultimately from Arabic صُفَّة (ṣuffa, “a long seat made of stone or brick”) or Aramaic צפא/ܨܦܬܐ. Cognate with or derived from Aramaic צפא/ܨܦܬܐ (ṣipā’, ṣeppəṯā, “mat, matting”). The word may have entered European languages via Turkish or through the Moorish occupation of Iberia.
Pronunciation
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Noun
sofa (plural sofas)
- (Middle East architecture, archaic) A raised area of a building's floor, usually covered with carpeting, used for sitting.
- (furniture) An upholstered seat with a raised back and one or two raised ends, long enough to comfortably accommodate two or more people.
- 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney: Ure Smith, published 1965, page 228:
- His eyes trailed over her feline pose on the sofa, finding her limbs adorable while he tried exasperatedly to extract the truth of licentious revelations from them.
Synonyms
Descendants
All are borrowed
Translations
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See also
Verb
sofa (third-person singular simple present sofas, present participle sofaing, simple past and past participle sofaed)
- To furnish with one or more sofas.
- 1852, Charles Astor Bristed, Five years in an English university, page 14:
- The appearance of a student's apartment, though by no means splendid, is decidedly comfortable ; it is well cushioned and sofaed, with a proper proportion of arm chairs, and a general air of respectability — much better on the whole than our student's rooms ever are.
- 1890, Stanley Lane-Poole, The Life of Lord Stratford de Redcliffe - Volume 1, page 100:
- First, it will surprize you to learn that instead of the venerable simplicity which reigns in St. Stephen's chapel, the H. of Representatives, besides being stoved, carpeted, desked, and sofaed in the most luxurious style, rivals and indeed surpasses the Legislature of Paris in decoration and drapery.
- 1893, Henry Swinglehurst, Silver Mines and Incidents of Travel, page 97:
- I and another therefore entirely occupied our stateroom, which was sofaed round, being just large enough for two to lie down and a third to sit with his feet up and his head on his knees.
- 1981, David A. Kaufelt, The Wine and the Music, page 331:
- It was a lavish, fully draped, fully sofaed, fully radiator-covered nineteenth-century deluxe German hotel suite.
- To seat or lay down on a sofa.
- 1895, Denver Medical Times - Volume 5, page 191:
- Cliques of three or more are formed, each member of which goes in search of victims, and the first female found complaining of pain in the lower part of her back, is immediately run down, corralled, cornered, so to speak, and sans ceremonie she is at once tabled, sofaed or beded, or in the absence of these relics of refinement she is floored or she may have to submit standing (especially if the doctor is in a hury and meets her at the gate or corner drug store) with an unerring plunge, of a not overly clean index finger, the darksome cavern is penetrated and perhaps, not, a cervix is touched and reveals, of course, a lacerated cervix, just as had been predicted.
- 1929, Benjamin Disraeli, Lawrence John Lumley Dundas Marquis of Zetland, 1876 to 1881, page 387:
- A few, feeble words—my first—to tell you I have left my room this morning and am shaven and shorn and dressed and sofaed in my writing room, after a terrible ten days or more.
- 2006, Kim Akass, Janet McCabe, Reading 'Desperate Housewives': Beyond the White Picket Fence:
- Many a time back in my boozing days when I was sofaed too.
References
- "sofa, n.", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Anagrams
Danish
Noun
sofa c (singular definite sofaen, plural indefinite sofaer)
Inflection
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French sofa, perhaps via Turkish sofa, ultimately from Arabic صُفَّة (ṣuffa).
Pronunciation
Noun
sofa m (plural sofa's, diminutive sofaatje n)
French
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Etymology
Ultimately from Arabic صُفَّة (ṣuffa, “a long seat made of stone or brick”), from Aramaic צפא (ṣipā’, “mat”)/Classical Syriac ܨܦܬܐ. The word may have entered French via Turkish sofa.
Note casually that Arabic itself uses كَنَبة (kanaba) for “sofa”, from French canapé.
Pronunciation
Noun
sofa m (plural sofas)
Descendants
All are borrowed.
- Asturian: sofá
- Catalan: sofà
- Czech: sofà
- Danish: sofa
- Dutch: sofa
- Indonesian: sofa
- English: sofa (see there for further descendants)
- Galician: sofá
- German: Sofa
- Hungarian: szófa
- Hunsrik: Sofa
- Icelandic: sófi
- Italian: sofà
- Lithuanian: sofa
- Northern Sami: suffá
- Norwegian: sofa
- Plautdietsch: Soofa
- Polish: sofa
- Portuguese: sofá
- Romanian: sofa
- Russian: софа (sofa)
- → Veps: sofa
- Serbo-Croatian: sofa / софа
- Spanish: sofá
- Swedish: soffa
- Uzbek: sofa
- Yiddish: סאָפֿע (sofe)
Further reading
- “sofa”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse sofa, from Proto-Germanic *swefaną.
Pronunciation
Verb
sofa (strong verb, third-person singular past indicative svaf, third-person plural past indicative sváfum, supine sofið)
- (intransitive) to sleep
- Ekki vekja hana, hún er sofandi.
- Don't wake her up, she's sleeping.
Conjugation
This verb needs an inflection-table template.
Derived terms
- fara að sofa (“to go to bed”)
- sofa hjá (“to sleep with, to have sex with”)
- sofa laust (“to sleep lightly”)
- sofa yfir sig (“to oversleep”)
- sofandi (“sleeping”)
Related terms
Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch sofa, from French sofa, ultimately from Arabic صُفَّة (ṣuffa, “a long seat made of stone or brick”).
Pronunciation
Noun
sofa (first-person possessive sofaku, second-person possessive sofamu, third-person possessive sofanya)
- sofa: an upholstered seat with a raised back and one or two raised ends, long enough to comfortably accommodate two or more people.
Derived terms
Further reading
- “sofa” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Interlingua
Noun
sofa (plural sofas)
- (item of furniture) sofa
Japanese
Romanization
sofa
Norman
Etymology
Noun
sofa m (plural sofas)
Synonyms
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
sofa m (definite singular sofaen, indefinite plural sofaer, definite plural sofaene)
References
- “sofa” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Pronunciation
Noun
sofa m (definite singular sofaen, indefinite plural sofaer or sofaar, definite plural sofaene or sofaane)
References
- “sofa” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *swefaną.
Verb
sofa (singular present indicative sefr or søfr, singular past indicative svaf, plural past indicative sváfu or sófu, past participle sofinn)
- to sleep
Conjugation
infinitive | sofa | |
---|---|---|
present participle | sofandi | |
past participle | sofinn | |
indicative | present | past |
1st-person singular | sef, søf | svaf |
2nd-person singular | sefr, søfr | svaft |
3rd-person singular | sefr, søfr | svaf |
1st-person plural | sofum | sófum, sváfum |
2nd-person plural | sofið | sófuð, sváfuð |
3rd-person plural | sofa | sófu, sváfu |
subjunctive | present | past |
1st-person singular | sofa | sœfa, svæfa |
2nd-person singular | sofir | sœfir, svæfir |
3rd-person singular | sofi | sœfi, svæfi |
1st-person plural | sofim | sœfim, svæfim |
2nd-person plural | sofið | sœfið, svæfið |
3rd-person plural | sofi | sœfi, svæfi |
imperative | present | |
2nd-person singular | sof | |
1st-person plural | sofum | |
2nd-person plural | sofið |
Related terms
Descendants
- Icelandic: sofa
- Faroese: sova
- Norwegian Nynorsk: sova, sove
- Jamtish: sovo
- Elfdalian: såvå
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- Old Swedish: sova
- Swedish: sova
- Old Danish: souæ
- Gutnish: syve
References
- “sofa”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from French sofa, from Arabic صُفَّة (ṣuffa, “a long seat made of stone or brick”), from Aramaic צפא (ṣipā’, “mat”).
Pronunciation
Noun
sofa f (diminutive sofka)
Declension
Further reading
- sofa in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- sofa in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Serbo-Croatian
Noun
sòfa f (Cyrillic spelling со̀фа)
Declension
Swahili
Etymology
Noun
sofa (n class, plural sofa)
Veps
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian софа́ (sofá).
Noun
sofa
Inflection
References
- English terms borrowed from French
- English terms derived from French
- English terms derived from Arabic
- English terms derived from Aramaic
- English 2-syllable words
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- Rhymes:English/əʊfə
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- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- Middle Eastern English
- en:Architecture
- English terms with archaic senses
- en:Furniture
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- Danish lemmas
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- Rhymes:French/a
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- Icelandic terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Icelandic terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *swep-
- Icelandic terms inherited from Old Norse
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- Rhymes:Icelandic/ɔːva
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- Icelandic lemmas
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- Indonesian terms borrowed from Dutch
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- Indonesian lemmas
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- ia:Furniture
- Japanese non-lemma forms
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- Norman terms borrowed from English
- Norman terms derived from English
- Norman lemmas
- Norman nouns
- Norman masculine nouns
- Jersey Norman
- Guernsey Norman
- nrf:Furniture
- Norwegian Bokmål lemmas
- Norwegian Bokmål nouns
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- nb:Furniture
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms with IPA pronunciation
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- nn:Furniture
- Old Norse terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old Norse terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *swep-
- Old Norse terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
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- Old Norse lemmas
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- Old Norse irregular verbs
- Old Norse class 4 strong verbs
- Polish terms borrowed from French
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- Polish terms derived from Aramaic
- Polish 2-syllable words
- Polish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Polish terms with audio links
- Rhymes:Polish/ɔfa
- Rhymes:Polish/ɔfa/2 syllables
- Polish lemmas
- Polish nouns
- Polish feminine nouns
- pl:Furniture
- Serbo-Croatian lemmas
- Serbo-Croatian nouns
- Serbo-Croatian feminine nouns
- Serbian Serbo-Croatian
- Swahili terms borrowed from English
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- Swahili lemmas
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- sw:Furniture
- Veps terms borrowed from Russian
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