sofa

Borrowed from French sofa, ultimately from Arabic صُفَّة‎ (ṣuffa, “a long seat made of stone or brick”), from Aramaic צפא‎ (ṣipā’, “mat”). The word may have entered European languages via Turkish or through the Moorish occupation of Iberia.

• (General American) enPR: sō'fə, IPA^(key): /ˈsoʊfə/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: sō'fə, IPA^(key): /ˈsəʊfə/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -əʊfə

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.

• (furniture): couch, lounge, divan, settee

• Assamese: চোফা (süpha)
• Burmese: ဆိုဖာ (hcuihpa)
• Chinese:
  • Mandarin: 沙發／沙发 (shāfā)
    • Lü: ᦌᦱᧈᦝᦱᧉ (saa¹faa²)
  • Cantonese: 梳化 (so1 faa3-2)
• Hindi: सोफ़ा (sofā)
• Japanese: ソファ (sofa)
• Korean: 소파 (sopa)
• Thai: โซฟา (soo-faa)

• love seat

• "sofa, n.", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• OFAs, as of, oafs

sofa c (singular definite sofaen, plural indefinite sofaer)

1. sofa, couch, divan, settee

Ultimately from Arabic صُفَّة‎ (ṣuffa, “a long seat made of stone or brick”), from Aramaic צפא‎ (ṣipā’, “mat”). The word may have entered French via Turkish sofa.

Note casually that Arabic itself uses كَنَبة‎ (kanaba) for “sofa”, from French canapé.

• IPA^(key): /so.fa/

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• Rhymes: -a
• Homophone: sofas

sofa m (plural sofas)

1. couch; sofa

• (couch): canapé

• “sofa” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Old Norse sofa, from Proto-Germanic *swefaną.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɔːva/
• Rhymes: -ɔːva

sofa (strong verb, third-person singular past indicative svaf, third-person plural past indicative sváfum, supine sofið)

1. (intransitive) to sleep

   Ekki vekja hana, hún er sofandi.

   Don't wake her up, she's sleeping.

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• sofna
• syfja

sofa (plural sofas)

1. (item of furniture) sofa

sofa

1. Rōmaji transcription of ソファ

Borrowed from English sofa.

sofa m (plural sofas)

1. (Jersey, Guernsey) sofa

• jontchéthe

sofa m (definite singular sofaen, indefinite plural sofaer, definite plural sofaene)

1. sofa, couch

• “sofa” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

sofa m (definite singular sofaen, indefinite plural sofaer or sofaar, definite plural sofaene or sofaane)

1. a sofa or couch

• “sofa” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

sòfa f (Cyrillic spelling со̀фа)

1. (Serbia) sofa

Borrowed from Russian софа́ (sofá).

sofa

1. sofa

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