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sofa
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)
- (Middle East architecture, archaic) A raised area of a building's floor, usually covered with carpeting, used for sitting.
- (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)
- To furnish with one or more sofas.
- 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)
- 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)
- (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)
- 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)
- (intransitive) to sleep
Conjugation
This verb needs an inflection-table template.
Derived terms
Related terms
- sofna
- syfja
Interlingua
Noun
sofa (plural sofas)
- (item of furniture) sofa
Japanese
Romanization
sofa
- R?maji transcription of ???
Norman
Etymology
Borrowed from English sofa.
Noun
sofa m (plural sofas)
- (Jersey, Guernsey) sofa
Synonyms
- jontchéthe
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
sofa m (definite singular sofaen, indefinite plural sofaer, definite plural sofaene)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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 ?????)
- (Serbia) sofa
Declension
Swahili
Etymology
From English sofa.
Noun
sofa (n class, plural sofa)
- sofa
Veps
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian ????? (sofá).
Noun
sofa
- 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
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futon
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese ?? (futon, ???), from Middle Chinese ?? (bu-dwan, “meditation cushion”) (compare Mandarin ?? (pútuán)), from ? (“cattail”) + ? (“sphere, round object”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?fu?t?n/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?fut?n/
- Rhymes: -u?t?n
Noun
futon (plural futons)
- A thin mattress of tufted cotton or similar material, placed on a floor or on a raised, foldable frame as a bed.
- A round cushion used for Zen meditation, traditionally made of woven bulrush leaves.
Translations
Anagrams
- fount
Esperanto
Noun
futon
- accusative singular of futo
Finnish
Etymology
From Japanese ?? (futon, ???).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?futon/, [?fut?o?n]
- Rhymes: -uton
- Syllabification: fu?ton
Noun
futon
- futon
Declension
Indonesian
Etymology
From Japanese ?? (futon), ?? (futon), from Middle Chinese ?? (bu-dwan, “meditation cushion”) (compare Mandarin ?? (pútuán)), from ? (“cattail”) + ? (“sphere, round object”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?fu.t?n]
- Hyphenation: fu?ton
Noun
futon (plural futon-futon, first-person possessive futonku, second-person possessive futonmu, third-person possessive futonnya)
- futon: a Japanese-style mattress or duvet; a thin mattress of tufted cotton or similar material, placed on a floor or on a raised, foldable frame as a bed.
- Hypernym: matras
Further reading
- “futon” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
Japanese
Romanization
futon
- R?maji transcription of ???
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