سفره

See also: شفرة and سفرة

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian سفره (sofre, “tablecloth”), itself from Arabic سُفْرَة (sufra, “victuals”).

Noun

سفره • (sofra) (plural سفر)

1. meal set out on a cloth or tray
2. travelling food-wallet that can be spread out
3. tablecloth, a cloth used to cover a table

   Synonym: دستار (destar)

4. wooden or metal tray serving as a dining table

Derived terms

• سفره‌جی (sofracı, “butler”)
• سفره‌لق (sofralık, “anything serving for a dining-table”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: sofra
• → Albanian: sofër
• → Aromanian: sufrã, sofrã
• → Bulgarian: софра́ (sofrá)
• → Crimean Tatar: sofra
• → Laz: სოჶრა (sofra)
• → Romanian: sofra
• → Serbo-Croatian: sȍfra, sȍpra, sȍvra

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sofra”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4277
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سفره”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 681
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Mappa”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[2], Vienna, column 1009
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سفره”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 2626
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sofra”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سفره”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1062

Persian

Etymology

From Arabic سُفْرَة (sufra, “victuals; table, especially for eating”). Displaced native خوان (xân). Cheung speculates it is from a root meaning to make up "beautify"

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [suf.ɾa]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [sʊf.ɾä]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [sʊf.ɾä]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [sʊf.ɾä]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [suf.ɾä]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [sof.ɹe]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [suf.ɾä]

Readings
Classical reading?	sufra
Dari reading?	sufra
Iranian reading?	sofre
Tajik reading?	sufra

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Noun

Dari	سفره
Iranian Persian
Tajik	суфра

سفره • (sofre) (plural سفره‌ها (sofre-hâ))

1. tablecloth

   Synonyms: خوان (xân), خوانپایه (xânpâya)

Derived terms

• ته سفره (tah sofre)
• سفره عقد (sofre 'aqd)
• سفره ماهی (sofre mâhi)
• سفره‌خانه (sofre-xâne, “restaurant”)

 

Descendants

• → Armenian: սուփրա (supʻra)
• → Azerbaijani: süfrə
• → Central Kurdish: سفرە (sifre)
• → Georgian: სუფრა (supra)
• → Ottoman Turkish: سفره (sofra)
  • Turkish: sofra
  • → Albanian: sofër
  • → Aromanian: sufrã, sofrã
  • → Bulgarian: софра́ (sofrá)
  • → Crimean Tatar: sofra
  • → Laz: სოჶრა (sofra)
  • → Romanian: sofra
  • → Serbo-Croatian: sȍfra, sȍpra, sȍvra