soda
English

A glass of soda (carbonated beverage).

Sodium bicarbonate.
Etymology
From Italian soda, which may be from dialectal Arabic سُوَّاد (suwwād, “saltwort”) = Arabic سُوَيْدَاء (suwaydāʾ, “Suaeda”).[1]
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsəʊdə/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈsoʊdə/
- Rhymes: -əʊdə
Noun
soda (countable and uncountable, plural sodas)
- (uncountable) Sodium bicarbonate (usually baking soda).
- (uncountable) Sodium carbonate (usually washing soda).
- (uncountable) Sodium in chemical combination.
- (uncountable) Carbonated water (water impregnated with pressurised carbon dioxide, originally made with sodium bicarbonate).
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 5, in The China Governess:
- A waiter brought his aperitif, which was a small scotch and soda, and as he sipped it gratefully he sighed.
‘Civilized,’ he said to Mr. Campion. ‘Humanizing.’ […] ‘Cigars and summer days and women in big hats with swansdown face-powder, that's what it reminds me of.’
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- (chiefly US, regional, especially in the northeast, uncountable) Any carbonated (usually sweet) soft drink.
- (chiefly US, regional, especially in the northeast, countable) A glass, bottle or can of this drink.
- (card games) The first card in the dealing box in the game of faro, which is discarded to leave 51 cards in play.
Synonyms
- (drink, glass of this drink): carbonated drink, fizzy drink, fizz (UK), (fizzy) pop (Northern US, Canada), soda pop (US), soft drink, coke (Southern US), lemonade (Australia)
Derived terms
- hydrosulfite of soda, hydrosulphite of soda
- soda niter, soda nitre
- sulfate of soda, sulphate of soda
- sulfite of soda, sulphite of soda
- baking soda
- bicarbonate of soda
- caustic soda
- club soda
- cream soda
- ice-cream soda
- muriate of soda
- nitrate of soda
- soda-acid
- soda ash
- soda biscuit
- soda bread
- soda cellulose
- soda counter
- soda cracker
- soda fountain
- soda glass
- sodaic
- soda jerk
- soda jerker
- soda lake
- soda-lime glass
- sodalite
- soda lye
- sodamide
- soda paper
- soda pop
- soda prairie
- soda process
- soda pulp
- soda siphon
- Soda Springs
- soda waste
- soda water
- sodium
- washing soda
Translations
sodium carbonate
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carbonated water
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sweet, carbonated drink
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glass of this drink
References
- “soda” (US) / “soda” (UK) in Oxford Dictionaries, Oxford University Press.
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /so.da/
Audio (Paris) (file) Audio (file)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “soda” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Etymology
From Latin soda, from Latin sodanum, Arabic صُدَاع (ṣudāʿ, literally “splitting headache”) from Arabic صَدَعَ (ṣadaʿa, “to split”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsɔ.da/
Synonyms
- (sodium carbonate): carbonato di sodio
- (soda water): seltz
Latvian
Declension
Declension of soda (4th declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) | plural (daudzskaitlis) | |
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nominative (nominatīvs) | soda | — |
accusative (akuzatīvs) | sodu | — |
genitive (ģenitīvs) | sodas | — |
dative (datīvs) | sodai | — |
instrumental (instrumentālis) | sodu | — |
locative (lokatīvs) | sodā | — |
vocative (vokatīvs) | soda | — |
Serbo-Croatian
Swahili
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Arabic سوداء (“black bile”) or from Persian.
Swedish
Declension
Declension of soda | ||||
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Uncountable | ||||
Indefinite | Definite | |||
Nominative | soda | sodan | — | — |
Genitive | sodas | sodans | — | — |
Synonyms
- natriumkarbonat
Related terms
- sodalut
- sodavatten
Veps
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *sota.
Inflection
Inflection of soda | |||
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nominative sing. | soda | ||
genitive sing. | sodan | ||
partitive sing. | sodad | ||
partitive plur. | sodoid | ||
singular | plural | ||
nominative | soda | sodad | |
accusative | sodan | sodad | |
genitive | sodan | sodoiden | |
partitive | sodad | sodoid | |
essive-instructive | sodan | sodoin | |
translative | sodaks | sodoikš | |
inessive | sodas | sodoiš | |
elative | sodaspäi | sodoišpäi | |
illative | ? | sodoihe | |
adessive | sodal | sodoil | |
ablative | sodalpäi | sodoilpäi | |
allative | sodale | sodoile | |
abessive | sodata | sodoita | |
comitative | sodanke | sodoidenke | |
prolative | sodadme | sodoidme | |
approximative I | sodanno | sodoidenno | |
approximative II | sodannoks | sodoidennoks | |
egressive | sodannopäi | sodoidennopäi | |
terminative I | ? | sodoihesai | |
terminative II | sodalesai | sodoilesai | |
terminative III | sodassai | — | |
additive I | ? | sodoihepäi | |
additive II | sodalepäi | sodoilepäi |
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