different between sofa vs window

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 windowe, windohe, windoge, from Old Norse vindauga (“window”, literally “wind-eye", "wind-aperture", "wind-hole”), i.e. ("air-hole"), equivalent to wind +? eye. Cognate with Scots wyndo, wyndok, winnock (“window”), Faroese vindeyga (“window”), Norwegian Nynorsk vindauga, Norwegian Bokmål vindu (“window”), Danish vindue (“window”), Swedish vindöga (“window”), Elfdalian windog and older German Windauge. The “windows” among early Germanic peoples were just unglazed holes (eyes) in the wall or roof that permitted wind to pass through (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?). Superseded Middle English fenestre, fenester (“window”) borrowed from Old French fenestre (“window”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?w?nd??/
• (US) enPR: w?n?d?, IPA^(key): /?w?ndo?/, [?w???o?]
• (some accents) enPR: w?n?d?, IPA^(key): /?w?nd?/
• Rhymes: -?nd??
• Hyphenation: win?dow

Noun

window (countable and uncountable, plural windows)

1. An opening, usually covered by one or more panes of clear glass, to allow light and air from outside to enter a building or vehicle.
   • 1952, L. F. Salzman, Building in England, p.173:

     A window is an opening in a wall to admit light and air.
2. An opening, usually covered by glass, in a shop which allows people to view the shop and its products from outside; a shop window.
3. (architecture) The shutter, casement, sash with its fittings, or other framework, which closes a window opening.
4. A period of time when something is available.
5. A restricted range.
   • 2015, Patrick R. Nicolas, Scala for Machine Learning (page 109)

     In this case, a band-pass filter using a range or window of frequencies is appropriate to isolate the frequency or the group of frequencies that characterize a specific cycle.

6. (graphical user interface) A rectangular area on a computer terminal or screen containing some kind of user interface, displaying the output of and allowing input for one of a number of simultaneously running computer processes.
7. A figure formed of lines crossing each other.
   • 1709, William King, Art of Cookery

     till he has windows on his bread and butter

8. (medicine) The time between first infection and detectability.
9. (military, historical, uncountable) Synonym of chaff (“strips of material intended to confuse radar”)

Coordinate terms

• door

Derived terms

Related terms

• wind

Translations

Verb

window (third-person singular simple present windows, present participle windowing, simple past and past participle windowed)

1. (transitive) To furnish with windows.
2. (transitive) To place at or in a window.