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See also: SOFA, Sofa, sofá, sofà, sófa, and sofā

English

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A firm sofa
A soft sofa
A modern-style sofa

Etymology

 sofa on Wikipedia

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

Noun

sofa (plural sofas)

  1. (Middle East architecture, archaic) A raised area of a building's floor, usually covered with carpeting, used for sitting.
  2. (furniture) An upholstered seat with a raised back and one or two raised ends, long enough to comfortably accommodate two or more people.
    Synonyms: couch, lounge, divan, settee
    • 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

See also

Verb

sofa (third-person singular simple present sofas, present participle sofaing, simple past and past participle sofaed)

  1. 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.
  2. 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

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Noun

sofa c (singular definite sofaen, plural indefinite sofaer)

  1. sofa, couch, divan, settee

Inflection

Declension of sofa
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative sofa sofaen sofaer sofaerne
genitive sofas sofaens sofaers sofaernes

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French sofa, perhaps via Turkish sofa, ultimately from Arabic صُفَّة (ṣuffa).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsoː.faː/
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: so‧fa

Noun

sofa m (plural sofa's, diminutive sofaatje n)

  1. (chiefly Belgium) A couch, a sofa.
    Synonyms: bank, zitbank

French

sofa

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)

  1. couch; sofa
    Synonym: canapé

Descendants

All are borrowed.

Further reading

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)

  1. (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

Related terms

Indonesian

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Etymology

From Dutch sofa, from French sofa, ultimately from Arabic صُفَّة (ṣuffa, “a long seat made of stone or brick”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsofa/
  • Hyphenation: so‧fa

Noun

sofa (first-person possessive sofaku, second-person possessive sofamu, third-person possessive sofanya)

  1. 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

Interlingua

Noun

sofa (plural sofas)

  1. (item of furniture) sofa

Japanese

Romanization

sofa

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ソファ

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from English sofa.

Noun

sofa m (plural sofas)

  1. (Jersey, Guernsey) sofa

Synonyms

Norwegian Bokmål

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Noun

sofa m (definite singular sofaen, indefinite plural sofaer, definite plural sofaene)

  1. sofa, couch

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Pronunciation

Noun

sofa m (definite singular sofaen, indefinite plural sofaer or sofaar, definite plural sofaene or sofaane)

  1. a sofa or couch

References

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)

  1. to sleep

Conjugation

Conjugation of sofa — active (irregular, strong class 4)
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

References

  • “sofa”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Polish

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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)

  1. sofa, couch

Declension

Declension of sofa
singular plural
nominative sofa sofy
genitive sofy sof
dative sofie sofom
accusative sofę sofy
instrumental sofą sofami
locative sofie sofach
vocative sofo sofy

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)

  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

Swahili

Etymology

From English sofa.

Noun

sofa (n class, plural sofa)

  1. sofa

Veps

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian софа́ (sofá).

Noun

sofa

  1. sofa

Inflection

Template:vep-decl-stems

References

  • Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “тахта”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎[1], Petrozavodsk: Periodika
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