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English

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Sodium bicarbonate (sense 1).
A glass of soda (carbonated beverage, sense 4).

Etymology

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From Italian soda. Sense 4 is an ellipsis of soda water.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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soda (countable and uncountable, plural sodas)

  1. (uncountable) Sodium bicarbonate.
    Synonym: baking soda
  2. (uncountable) Sodium carbonate.
    Synonym: washing soda
  3. (uncountable) Sodium in chemical combination.
  4. (uncountable) Carbonated water (water impregnated with pressurised carbon dioxide, originally made with sodium bicarbonate).
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 5, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
      A waiter brought his aperitif, which was a small scotch and soda, and as he sipped it gratefully he sighed.
         ‘Civilized,’ he said to Mr. Campion. ‘Humanizing.’ [] ‘Cigars and summer days and women in big hats with swansdown face-powder, that's what it reminds me of.’
  5. (chiefly US, Philippines, uncountable) Any carbonated (usually sweet) soft drink.
    • 2025 July 19, Ben Blatt, “Should Food Stamps Pay for Soda?”, in The New York Times[2], →ISSN:
      Should Americans on food assistance be able to use that money on soda? Starting in 2026, the answer in six states will be no. At least six others have proposed similar restrictions, and some states are also disallowing candy purchases.
  6. (chiefly US, countable) A glass, bottle or can of this drink.
  7. (card games) The first card in the dealing box in the game of faro, which is discarded to leave 51 cards in play.

Usage notes

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Preferences for using “coke” generically, “pop”, “soda”, etc. for the class of carbonated beverages has a strong regional component in the United States.[1] See extended notes at soda pop.

Synonyms

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Unami: suti

Translations

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References

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  1. ^ Fridland, Valerie M. (6 July 2025), “Pop, soda or coke? A linguist explains the history behind the various names for the drink”, in PBS NewsHour[1], PBS, retrieved 6 July 2025

Further reading

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Anagrams

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Czech

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Czech Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia cs

Pronunciation

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Noun

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soda f

  1. soda (sodium bicarbonate; usually baking soda)
  2. soda (sodium carbonate; usually washing soda, caustic soda)
  3. soda (carbonated water)

Declension

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Further reading

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Danish

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Etymology

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From Italian soda.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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soda c (singular definite sodaen, not used in plural form)

  1. soda (sodium carbonate)
  2. soda water
    Synonym: sodavand

Declension

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Declension of soda
common
gender
singular
indefinite definite
nominative soda sodaen
genitive sodas sodaens

References

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French

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English soda.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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soda m (plural sodas)

  1. soda, soft drink

Derived terms

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Further reading

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Anagrams

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Indonesian

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Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia id

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Dutch soda, from Italian soda, from Arabic سُوَيْدَاء (suwaydāʔ, Suaeda), which has several variants in Arabic dialects only recorded later.

Noun

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soda (plural soda-soda)

  1. soda
    1. sodium bicarbonate
      Synonyms: soda kue, natrium bikarbonat
    2. sodium carbonate
      Synonym: natrium karbonat
    3. sodium in chemical combination.
    4. carbonated water
    5. sweet, carbonated drink
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Mandailing Batak [Term?].

Noun

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soda (plural soda-soda)

  1. lime chewed with a betel quid
    Synonym: kapur sirih

Etymology 3

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Borrowed from Cia-Cia [Term?].

Verb

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soda

  1. attached (branches attached to the tree)

Etymology 4

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From Koneq-Koneqe

Noun

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soda (plural soda-soda)

  1. warm water
    Synonym: air hangat

Further reading

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Italian

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Arabic سُوَيْدَاء (suwaydāʔ, Suaeda), which has several variants in Arabic dialects only recorded later. Meanings of a beverage are semantic loan from English soda.

Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈsɔ.da/
  • Rhymes: -ɔda
  • Hyphenation: sò‧da

Noun

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soda f (plural sode)

  1. (obsolete) parts of certain plants high in mineral salts the ashes in particular of which were used in glassmaking
  2. soda, sodium carbonate
    Synonym: carbonato di sodio
  3. soda water
    Synonym: seltz

Etymology 2

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Adjective

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soda f

  1. feminine singular of sodo, meaning solid and firm, synonymous with solida

Verb

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soda

  1. third-person singular present indicative of sodare

Anagrams

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Karelian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Finnic *sota.

Noun

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soda (genitive sovan, partitive sodua)

  1. war

Synonyms

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Derived terms

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Kongo

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French soldat.

Noun

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soda

  1. soldier

Latvian

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Noun

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soda f (4th declension)

  1. soda
  2. natron
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Declension

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Declension of soda (4th)
singular
(vienskaitlis)
plural
(daudzskaitlis)
nominative soda
genitive sodas
dative sodai
accusative sodu
instrumental sodu
locative sodā
vocative soda

Noun

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soda m

  1. genitive singular of sods

Verb

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soda

  1. third-person singular/plural present indicative of sodīt
  2. (with the particle lai) third-person singular imperative of sodīt
  3. (with the particle lai) third-person plural imperative of sodīt

Lingala

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Kongo soda.

Noun

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soda

  1. soldier

Lithuanian

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Etymology 1

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Belonging to the family of Lithuanian sodinti.

Noun

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sodà f (plural sõdos) stress pattern 4

  1. (dialectal or rare) village, settlement
    Synonyms: kaimas, sodžius
Declension
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Declension of sodà
singular
(vienaskaita)
plural
(daugiskaita)
nominative (vardininkas) sodà sõdos
genitive (kilmininkas) sodõs sodų̃
dative (naudininkas) sõdai sodóms
accusative (galininkas) sõdą sodàs
instrumental (įnagininkas) sodà sodomi̇̀s
locative (vietininkas) sodojè sodosè
vocative (šauksmininkas) sõda sõdos

References

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  • soda”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2025
  • Fraenkel, Ernst (1955, 1962–1965), “sodà”, in Litauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume II, Heidelberg-Göttingen: Carl Winter and Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, page 854

Etymology 2

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 soda on Lithuanian Wikipedia

Noun

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sodà f (plural sòdos) stress pattern 2

  1. (chiefly in the singular) soda (chemical compound containing sodium)
    kaustinė sodacaustic soda, sodium hydroxide
    kalcinuota sodacalcined soda, sodium carbonate
    kepimo soda, maistinė sodabaking soda, [food-related] soda, sodium bicarbonate
Declension
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Declension of sodà
singular
(vienaskaita)
plural
(daugiskaita)
nominative (vardininkas) sodà sòdos
genitive (kilmininkas) sòdos sòdų
dative (naudininkas) sòdai sòdoms
accusative (galininkas) sòdą sodàs
instrumental (įnagininkas) sodà sòdomis
locative (vietininkas) sòdoje sòdose
vocative (šauksmininkas) sòda sòdos

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Livonian

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Noun

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soda

  1. Salaca form of suodā (war)

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology 1

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From Italian sodo, possibly from Latin solidus (solid). The second sense is borrowed from English.

Noun

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soda m (definite singular sodaen, indefinite plural sodaar or sodaer, definite plural sodaane or sodaene)

  1. sodium carbonate
  2. carbonated water, soft drink

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

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soda n

  1. definite plural of sod

References

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Polish

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Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl
soda

Etymology

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Internationalism; compare German Soda, Italian soda, Spanish soda, ultimately from Medieval Latin soda, from Arabic سُوَيْدَاء (suwaydāʔ). Doublet of sód.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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soda f

  1. (chemistry) soda, sodium carbonate, washing soda
    Synonym: węglan sodu
  2. (baking, chemistry) baking soda, soda, sodium bicarbonate
    Synonym: soda oczyszczona

Declension

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Derived terms

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adjectives

Further reading

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  • soda in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • soda in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Spanish soda. Meanings of a beverage are semantic loan from English soda.

Noun

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soda f (plural sodas)

  1. (historical) parts of certain plants high in mineral salts the ashes in particular of which were used in glassmaking
  2. soda (carbonated water)
  3. soda (sweet, carbonated drink)
    Synonyms: refrigerante, refresco
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Etymology 2

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Verb

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soda

  1. inflection of sodar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Serbo-Croatian

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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sóda f (Cyrillic spelling со́да)

  1. soda (sodium carbonate)
  2. soda (carbonated drink)

Declension

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Declension of soda
singular plural
nominative soda sode
genitive sode soda
dative sodi sodama
accusative sodu sode
vocative sodo sode
locative sodi sodama
instrumental sodom sodama

Further reading

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  • soda”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Slovene

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Noun

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soda

  1. inflection of sod:
    1. genitive singular
    2. nominative/accusative dual

Spanish

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Etymology

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16th-century borrowing from Italian soda. Doublet of sosa acquired earlier from Catalan. Meanings of a beverage are semantic loan from English soda.

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soda f (plural sodas)

  1. (historical) parts of certain plants high in mineral salts the ashes in particular of which were used in glassmaking
  2. soda (soft drink)
    Synonyms: gaseosa, refresco, (Chile) bebida
  3. soda (sodium hydroxide)
    Synonym: sosa
  4. (Costa Rica, Panama, rarely in United States) eatery; cheap, casual restaurant
    Synonym: comedor

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Swahili

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From English soda.

Noun

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soda class IX (plural soda class X)

  1. soda (carbonated water)
  2. soda (sweet carbonated drink)

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Arabic سَوْدَاء (sawdāʔ, black bile).

Noun

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soda class IX (plural soda class X)

  1. melancholy

Swedish

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Etymology

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From Italian soda.

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Noun

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soda c

  1. soda, sodium carbonate

Declension

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Declension of soda
nominative genitive
singular indefinite soda sodas
definite sodan sodans
plural indefinite
definite

Synonyms

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References

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Anagrams

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Tok Pisin

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Etymology

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From English solder.

Noun

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soda

  1. solder

Veps

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Etymology

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From Proto-Finnic *sota.

Noun

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soda

  1. war

Inflection

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Inflection of soda (inflection type 5/sana)
nominative sing. soda
genitive sing. sodan
partitive sing. sodad
partitive plur. sodoid
singular plural
nominative soda sodad
accusative sodan sodad
genitive sodan sodoiden
partitive sodad sodoid
essive-instructive sodan sodoin
translative sodaks sodoikš
inessive sodas sodoiš
elative sodaspäi sodoišpäi
illative sodaha sodoihe
adessive sodal sodoil
ablative sodalpäi sodoilpäi
allative sodale sodoile
abessive sodata sodoita
comitative sodanke sodoidenke
prolative sodadme sodoidme
approximative I sodanno sodoidenno
approximative II sodannoks sodoidennoks
egressive sodannopäi sodoidennopäi
terminative I sodahasai sodoihesai
terminative II sodalesai sodoilesai
terminative III sodassai
additive I sodahapäi sodoihepäi
additive II sodalepäi sodoilepäi