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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

English

Etymology

From Middle English coughen, coghen, from Old English *cohhian (compare Old English cohhetan (“to shout”)), from Proto-Germanic *kuh- (“to cough”). Cognate with Dutch kuchen (“to cough”), German keuchen (“to pant”), Albanian hukat (“pant, gasp”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k?f/
  • (Conservative RP) IPA^(key): /k??f/
• (General American) enPR: kôf, IPA^(key): /k?f/
• (cot–caught merger, Canada) enPR: k?f, IPA^(key): /k?f/
• Rhymes: -?f
• Rhymes: -??f

Verb

cough (third-person singular simple present coughs, present participle coughing, simple past and past participle coughed)

1. (intransitive) To push air from the lungs in a quick, noisy explosion.

2. (transitive, sometimes followed by "up") To force something out of the throat or lungs by coughing.

3. (intransitive) To make a noise like a cough.

Derived terms

• cougher
• cough up

Translations

Noun

cough (plural coughs)

1. A sudden, usually noisy expulsion of air from the lungs, often involuntary.

   Behind me, I heard a distinct, dry cough.

2. A condition that causes one to cough; a tendency to cough.

   Sorry, I can't come to work today – I've got a nasty cough.

3. Used to focus attention on a following utterance, often a euphemism or an attribution of blame.

   He was – cough – indisposed.

Synonyms

• (condition): tussis

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• gouch