different between softa vs sorta

English

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ?????? (“theology student”) (modern Turkish softa), from Persian ??????.

Noun

softa (plural softas)

1. (Islam) A religious student, especially in Turkey
   • 1896, Eliakim Littell and Robert S. Littell Living Age, volume 208, page 330.

     The softas, concerning whose exploits we have heard so much of late, are the theological students who wish to become ulemas, or, literally, learned men.

2. (by extension) A fanatic adherent, blind follower

Translations

Anagrams

• FOSTA, fatso

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?soft?/, [?s?o?ft??]
• Rhymes: -oft?
• Syllabification: sof?ta

Etymology 1

Shortening from English software.

Noun

softa

1. (computing, jargon) software

Declension

Etymology 2

From Turkish softa (“theology student”).

Noun

softa

1. softa

Declension

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ??????, from Persian ??????.

Noun

softa (definite accusative softay?, plural softalar)

1. (Islam) A student of theology
2. (by extension) A fanatic adherent, blind follower, person who is zealously enthusiastic for some cause, especially in religion
3. (by extension) A backwards-minded person

Declension

Descendants

• ? English: softa

English

Etymology

Written form of a reduction of sort of.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?s??t?/, [?s????]
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s??t?/, [?s??t?]

Adverb

sorta (not comparable)

1. (informal) Contraction of sort of.

   The portraits on the wall aren't so useful, just sorta cool to have around

   • 1912, Caspar Whitney, Albert Britt, Outing: Sport, Adventure, Travel, Fiction, Volume 60, page 680,

     'Webb,' he says sorta sorrowful like, 'it looks like a howlin' shame to have a bang-up American girl hooked up to a money-grubbin' member of the British nobility. […] '

   • 1993 July, Sort of a Hero, in Boys' Life, page 34,

     In fact the whole thing sorta backfired on old Chuck — and on me and Pete too. Instead of laughing about it, most people thought it was pretty crummy.

Synonyms

• kinda

Translations

Contraction

sorta (plural sortsa)

1. (colloquial) Sort of.

   There's gotta be some sorta explanation.

   • 2001, Lawrence A. Wenzel, The Sandcastle at High Tide, page 97,

     He glanced at her then back at me. "What sorta research?"

     "Well, war correspondent might not be too far off," I said.

Anagrams

• Astor, Astro, Roats, Sarot, Troas, artos, astro, astro-, ratos, roast, rotas, taros, tarso-

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?r?ta/
• Rhymes: -?r?ta

Noun

sorta f (genitive singular sortu, nominative plural sortur)

1. black dye

Declension

Derived terms

• sortulyng (“common bearberry, Arctostaphylos uva-ursi”)

Related terms

• sorti (“darkness; dark weather”)
• sortna (“to darken”)
• svartur (“black”)

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sor.ta/
• Rhymes: -?rta
• Rhymes: -orta

Noun

sorta f (plural sorte)

1. sort, type, kind

Verb

sorta

1. feminine singular past participle of sorgere

Anagrams

• astro, sarto, starò, tarso

Romanian

Etymology

From German sortieren

Verb

a sorta (third-person singular present sorteaz?, past participle sortat) 1st conj.

1. to sort

Conjugation

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German Sorte and/or Italian sorta; all eventually from Latin sors. See English sort for more.

Noun

s?rta f (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. sort, kind

Declension

Veps

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

sorta

1. to bring down, to knock down
2. to cut down, to chop down, to fell
3. to drop (by accident)

Inflection

References

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