different between school vs sofa

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: sko?ol, IPA^(key): /sku?l/
• Rhymes: -u?l

Etymology 1

From Middle English scole, schole (“group of persons, multitude, host, school of fish”), from Middle Dutch scole (“multitude, troop of people, swarm of animals”), from Old Dutch *scola, *skola (“troop, multitude”), from Proto-Germanic *skul? (“crowd”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)k?el- (“crowd, people”). Cognate with Middle Low German sch?le (“multitude, troop”), Old English scolu (“troop or band of people, host, multitude, school of fish”). Doublet of shoal. Compare Hebrew ???????????? (“*(s)c?l?–education”), Hebrew ??????????? (“*(s)k?ol–cluster”).

Alternative forms

• skull (obsolete)

Noun

school (plural schools)

2. (collective) A group of fish or a group of marine mammals such as porpoises, dolphins, or whales.

   The divers encountered a huge school of mackerel.

3. A multitude.

Synonyms

• (fish): shoal

Translations

Verb

school (third-person singular simple present schools, present participle schooling, simple past and past participle schooled)

1. (intransitive) (of fish) To form into, or travel in a school.

Etymology 2

From Middle English scole, from Old English sc?l (“place of education”), from Proto-Germanic *sk?la (“school”), from Late Latin schola, scola (“learned discussion or dissertation, lecture, school”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (skholeîon), from ????? (skhol?, “spare time, leisure; conversations and the knowledge gained through them during free time; the places where these conversations took place”), from Proto-Indo-European *se??- (“to hold, have, possess”). Doublet of schola and shul. Compare Old Frisian sk?le, sch?le (“school”) (West Frisian skoalle, Saterland Frisian Skoule), Dutch school (“school”), German Low German School (“school”), Old High German scuola (“school”), Old Norse skóli (“school”).Influenced in some senses by Middle English schole (“group of persons, host, company”), from Middle Dutch scole (“multitude, troop, band”). See school₁. Related also to Old High German sigi (German Sieg, “victory”), Old English si?e, sigor (“victory”).

Alternative forms

• schole (obsolete)

Noun

school (plural schools)

1. (US, Canada) An institution dedicated to teaching and learning; an educational institution.

2. (Britain) An educational institution providing primary and secondary education, prior to tertiary education (college or university).
3. (Britain) At Eton College, a period or session of teaching.

4. Within a larger educational institution, an organizational unit, such as a department or institute, which is dedicated to a specific subject area.

5. An art movement, a community of artists.

   The Barbizon school of painters were part of an art movement towards Realism in art, which arose in the context of the dominant Romantic Movement of the time.

6. (considered collectively) The followers of a particular doctrine; a particular way of thinking or particular doctrine; a school of thought.
   • 1660, Jeremy Taylor, The Worthy Communicant; or a Discourse of the Nature, Effects, and Blessings consequent to the worthy receiving of the Lords Supper

     Let no man be less confident in his faith […] by reason of any difference of judgment , which is in the several schools of Christians.

7. The time during which classes are attended or in session in an educational institution.

8. The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honours are held.
9. The canons, precepts, or body of opinion or practice, sanctioned by the authority of a particular class or age.

   He was a gentleman of the old school.

   • 1883, Arthur Sherburne Hardy, But Yet a Woman

     His face pale but striking, though not handsome after the schools.

10. An establishment offering specialized instruction, as for driving, cooking, typing, coding, etc.

Synonyms

• (institution dedicated to teaching and learning): academy, college, university
• (organizational unity within an educational institution): college, department, faculty, institute

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:school

Coordinate terms

• (institution providing primary and secondary education): nursery school, kindergarten, college, polytechnic, university

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

Verb

school (third-person singular simple present schools, present participle schooling, simple past and past participle schooled)

1. (transitive) To educate, teach, or train (often, but not necessarily, in a school).

2. (transitive) To defeat emphatically, to teach an opponent a harsh lesson.
   • 1998, Leigh Jones, "National bar exam methods win in ADA regulation test," The Journal Record, April 13,

     A blind law graduate who put the National Conference of Bar Examiners to the test got schooled in federal court.

   • 2007, Peter David and Alvin Sargent, Spider-Man 3, Simon and Schuster, ?ISBN, pg. 216,

     "You again?" Sandman demanded. "I guess you didn't learn your lesson."

     "This time I'm gonna school you."

3. (transitive) To control, or compose, one's expression.

Derived terms

• schooling

Translations

Further reading

• school on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• school (fish) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• school (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• cholos

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sxo?l/
• Hyphenation: school
• Rhymes: -o?l

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch schôle, from Latin schola, from Ancient Greek ????? (skhol?).

Noun

school f (plural scholen, diminutive schooltje n)

1. A school, educational institution that provides education, whether combined with research or not
2. A thematic educational institute within a larger one, such as in a university for a single research field.
3. Any organisation providing instruction.
4. A movement or stylistic trend.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: skool
  • ? Northern Ndebele: isikolo
  • ? N?uu: skool
  • ? Sotho: sekolo
  • ? Southern Ndebele: isikolo
  • ? Shona: chikoro (through a Nguni intermediate)
  • ? Tsonga: xikolo
  • ? Venda: tshikolo
  • ? Xhosa: isikolo
  • ? Zulu: isikole
• ? Papiamentu: skol
• ? Sranan Tongo: skoro

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch sch?le, from Old Dutch *skola, from Proto-Germanic *skul?, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)k?el- (“crowd, people”).

Noun

school f (plural scholen, diminutive schooltje n)

1. A school, group of fish or other aquatic animals.

Derived terms

• samenscholen

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

school

1. singular past indicative of schuilen
2. first-person singular present indicative of scholen
3. imperative of scholen

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French sofa, ultimately from Arabic ??????? (?uffa, “a long seat made of stone or brick”) or Aramaic ????/????. Cognate with or derived from Aramaic ????/???? (?ip?’, ?epp???, “mat, matting”). The word may have entered European languages via Turkish or through the Moorish occupation of Iberia.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: s?'f?, IPA^(key): /?s??f?/
• (General American) enPR: s?'f?, IPA^(key): /?so?f?/
• Rhymes: -??f?

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

• (furniture): couch, lounge, divan, settee

Descendants

Translations

See also

• love seat

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.
2. To seat or lay down on a sofa.

References

• "sofa, n.", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Anagrams

• OFAs, as of, oafs

Danish

Noun

sofa c (singular definite sofaen, plural indefinite sofaer)

1. sofa, couch, divan, settee

Inflection

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French sofa, perhaps via Turkish sofa, ultimately from Arabic ??????? (?uffa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?so?.fa?/
• Hyphenation: so?fa

Noun

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

1. (chiefly Belgium) A couch, a sofa.

   Synonyms: bank, zitbank

French

Etymology

Ultimately from Arabic ??????? (?uffa, “a long seat made of stone or brick”), from Aramaic ???? (?ip?’, “mat”)/Classical Syriac ?????. The word may have entered French via Turkish sofa.

Note casually that Arabic itself uses ??????? (kanaba) for “sofa”, from French canapé.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?.fa/
• Rhymes: -a
• Homophone: sofas

Noun

sofa m (plural sofas)

1. couch; sofa

Synonyms

• (couch): canapé

Further reading

• “sofa” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse sofa, from Proto-Germanic *swefan?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s??va/
• Rhymes: -??va

Verb

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

1. (intransitive) to sleep

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

Related terms

• sofna
• syfja

Interlingua

Noun

sofa (plural sofas)

1. (item of furniture) sofa

Japanese

Romanization

sofa

1. R?maji transcription of ???

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from English sofa.

Noun

sofa m (plural sofas)

1. (Jersey, Guernsey) sofa

Synonyms

• jontchéthe

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

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

1. sofa, couch

References

• “sofa” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?su?f?/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

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

1. a sofa or couch

References

• “sofa” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *swefan?.

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

Related terms

• sofna
• svefn

Descendants

References

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

Polish

Etymology

From French sofa, from Arabic ??????? (?uffa, “a long seat made of stone or brick”), from Aramaic ???? (?ip?’, “mat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?.fa/

Noun

sofa f (diminutive sofka)

1. sofa, couch

Declension

Further reading

• sofa in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• sofa in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

sòfa f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. (Serbia) sofa

Declension

Swahili

Etymology

From English sofa.

Noun

sofa (n class, plural sofa)

1. sofa

Veps

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian ????? (sofá).

Noun

sofa

1. sofa

Inflection

References

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