sofa

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sofa c (singular definite sofaen, plural indefinite sofaer)

sofaen (definite singular)
sofaer (indefinite plural)
sofa (indefinite nominative singular)
sofaen (definite nominative singular)
sofaer (indefinite nominative plural)
sofaerne (definite nominative plural)
sofas (genitive indefinite singular)
sofaens (definite genitive singular)
sofaers (genitive indefinite plural)
sofaernes (definite genitive plural)


sofa

nl-noun

sofa m (plural sofa's, diminutive sofaatje n)

sofa's (plural)
sofaatje (diminutive neuter)

Borrowed from French sofa, perhaps via Turkish sofa, ultimately from Arabic صُفَّة (ṣuffa).


sofa

(Middle East architecture, archaic) A raised area of a building's floor, usually covered with carpeting, used for sitting.

His eyes trailed over her feline pose on the sofa, finding her limbs adorable while he tried exasperatedly to extract the truth of licentious revelations from them.

1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 228:

(furniture) An upholstered seat with a raised back and one or two raised ends, long enough to comfortably accommodate two or more people.

→ Assamese: চোফা (süpha)

→ Burmese: ဆိုဖာ (hcuihpa)

→ Cantonese: 梳化 (so¹ faa³⁻²)

→ Hindi: सोफ़ा (sofā)

→ Japanese: ソファ (sofa)

→ Kashubian: zofa

→ Korean: 소파 (sopa) (Canada)

→ Norman: sofa

→ Penang Hokkien: sofa

→ Swahili: sofa

→ Thai: โซฟา (soo-faa)

→ Urdu: صوفہ (sofā)

→ Welsh: soffa

→ Wu: 沙發 /沙发 (¹so-faq₇)

→ Mandarin: 沙發 /沙发 (shāfā)

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→ Lü: ᦌᦱᧈᦝᦱᧉ (saa¹faa²)

→ Lü: ᦌᦱᧈᦝᦱᧉ (saa¹faa²)

→ Mongolian: шафа (šafa), ᠱᠠᠹᠠ (šafa)

→ Uyghur: سافا (safa)

→ Wutunhua: shafa

→ Zhuang: sahfaz

Borrowed from French sofa, ultimately from Arabic صُفَّة (ṣuffa, “a long seat made of stone or brick, covered with rich carpets and cushions and used for sitting”). Cognate with Aramaic צפא/Classical Syriac ܨܦܬܐ (ṣipā’, ṣeppəṯā, “mat, matting”). The word may have entered European languages via Muslim Iberia or through Turkish.

cog

ṣipā’, ṣeppəṯā


sofa

The appearance of a student's apartment, though by no means splendid, is decidedly comfortable ; it is well cushioned and sofaed, with a proper proportion of arm chairs, and a general air of respectability — much better on the whole than our student's rooms ever are.

1852, Charles Astor Bristed, Five years in an English university, page 14:

First, it will surprize you to learn that instead of the venerable simplicity which reigns in St. Stephen's chapel, the H. of Representatives, besides being stoved, carpeted, desked, and sofaed in the most luxurious style, rivals and indeed surpasses the Legislature of Paris in decoration and drapery.

1890, Stanley Lane-Poole, The Life of Lord Stratford de Redcliffe - Volume 1, page 100:

I and another therefore entirely occupied our stateroom, which was sofaed round, being just large enough for two to lie down and a third to sit with his feet up and his head on his knees.

1893, Henry Swinglehurst, Silver Mines and Incidents of Travel, page 97:

It was a lavish, fully draped, fully sofaed, fully radiator-covered nineteenth-century deluxe German hotel suite.

1981, David A. Kaufelt, The Wine and the Music, page 331:

Cliques of three or more are formed, each member of which goes in search of victims, and the first female found complaining of pain in the lower part of her back, is immediately run down, corralled, cornered, so to speak, and sans ceremonie she is at once tabled, sofaed or beded, or in the absence of these relics of refinement she is floored or she may have to submit standing (especially if the doctor is in a hury and meets her at the gate or corner drug store) with an unerring plunge, of a not overly clean index finger, the darksome cavern is penetrated and perhaps, not, a cervix is touched and reveals, of course, a lacerated cervix, just as had been predicted.

1895, Denver Medical Times - Volume 5, page 191:

A few, feeble words—my first—to tell you I have left my room this morning and am shaven and shorn and dressed and sofaed in my writing room, after a terrible ten days or more.

1880 October 22, Benjamin Disraeli, chapter XVI, in George Earle Buckle, editor, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, volume VI: 1876–1881, published 1929, Hughenden Manor; To Lady Bradford, page 592:

Many a time back in my boozing days when I was sofaed too.

2006, Kim Akass, Janet McCabe, Reading 'Desperate Housewives': Beyond the White Picket Fence:

en-verb

sofa (third-person singular simple present sofas, present participle sofaing, simple past and past participle sofaed)

sofas (present singular third-person)
sofaing (participle present)
sofaed (participle past)
sofaed (past)
sopha (alternative)

cog

ṣipā’, ṣeppəṯā


sofa

1884 Sofas conquer northern Sierra Leone. The sofas were soldiers of Mandinka empire builder, Samori Turay. Falaba, capital of Solima Yalunka kingdom, destroyed in the process.

2006, Magbaily C. Fyle, Historical Dictionary of Sierra Leone, page xx:

(historical) A slave soldier who served in the army of the Mali Empire.


sofa

→ Asturian: sofá

→ Catalan: sofà

→ Czech: sofà

→ Danish: sofa

→ Dutch: sofa

Indonesian: sofa

→ English: sofa (see there for further descendants)

→ Galician: sofá

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→ German: Sofa
→ Estonian: sohva
→ Kashubian: zófa

→ Hungarian: szófa

→ Hunsrik: Sofa

→ Icelandic: sófi

→ Italian: sofà

→ Lithuanian: sofa

→ Northern Sami: suffá

→ Norwegian: sofa

→ Plautdietsch: Soofa

→ Polish: sofa

→ Portuguese: sofá

→ Romanian: sofa

→ Russian: софа (sofa)
→ Veps: sofa

→ Serbo-Croatian: sofa / софа

→ Spanish: sofá

→ Swedish: soffa
→ Finnish: sohva
→ Ingrian: sohva

→ Uzbek: sofa

→ Yiddish: סאָפֿע (sofe)

Ultimately from Arabic صُفَّة (ṣuffa, “a long seat made of stone or brick”), from Aramaic צפא (ṣipā’, “mat”)/Classical Syriac ܨܦܬܐ. The word may have entered French via Turkish sofa.
Note casually that Arabic itself uses كَنَبة (kanaba) for “sofa”, from French canapé.


sofa

Ekki vekja hana, hún er sofandi.

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

svaf (indicative past singular third-person)
sváfum (indicative past plural third-person)
sofið (supine)

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


sofa

sofa: an upholstered seat with a raised back and one or two raised ends, long enough to comfortably accommodate two or more people

From Dutch sofa, from French sofa, ultimately from Arabic صُفَّة (ṣuffa, “a long seat made of stone or brick”).


sofa

So ef wi sofa, wi a sofa kaaz wi waahn fi elp unu an wi waahn unu fi kip chrang. An ef wi get elp, unu wuda a get elp tu. Kaaz unu wi nuo se wen unu a sofa laik wi, fi unu elp wi kom. An dat wi mek unu gwaan kip chrang wen chobl tek unu.

2012, Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment, Edinburgh: DJB, published 2012, →ISBN, 2 Korintiyan 1:6:

If we are in distress, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are being comforted, it is for your comfort, which results in you patiently bearing the same sufferings that we suffer.

to suffer, to be troubled, to be distressed


sofa

sofà (canonical feminine stress-pattern-2)
sòfos (plural)
sofà (nominative singular)
sòfos (nominative plural)
sòfos (genitive singular)
sòfų (genitive plural)
sòfai (dative singular)
sòfoms (dative plural)
sòfą (accusative singular)
sofàs (accusative plural)
sofà (instrumental singular)
sòfomis (instrumental plural)
sòfoje (locative singular)
sòfose (locative plural)
sòfa (singular vocative)
sòfos (plural vocative)

Borrowed from French sofa or Italian sofà, ultimately from Arabic صُفَّة (ṣuffa, “a long seat made of stone or brick”). Compare Russian софа́ (sofá).


sofa

sofaen (definite singular)
sofaer (indefinite plural)
sofaene (definite plural)


sofa

sofaen (definite singular)
sofaer (indefinite plural)
sofaar (indefinite plural)
sofaene (definite plural)
sofaane (definite plural)


sofa

sofa (singular present indicative sefr or søfr, singular past indicative svaf, plural past indicative sváfu or sófu, past participle sofinn)

sefr (indicative present singular)
søfr (indicative present singular)
svaf (indicative past singular)
sváfu (indicative past plural)
sófu (indicative past plural)
sofinn (participle past)
sofa (infinitive)
sofandi (participle present)
sofinn (participle past)
sef (first-person indicative present singular)
søf (first-person indicative present singular)
svaf (first-person indicative past singular)
sofa (first-person present singular subjunctive)
sœfa (first-person past singular subjunctive)
svæfa (first-person past singular subjunctive)
sefr (indicative present second-person singular)
søfr (indicative present second-person singular)
svaft (indicative past second-person singular)
sofir (present second-person singular subjunctive)
sœfir (past second-person singular subjunctive)
svæfir (past second-person singular subjunctive)
sefr (indicative present singular third-person)
søfr (indicative present singular third-person)
svaf (indicative past singular third-person)
sofi (present singular subjunctive third-person)
sœfi (past singular subjunctive third-person)
svæfi (past singular subjunctive third-person)
sofum (first-person indicative plural present)
sófum (first-person indicative past plural)
sváfum (first-person indicative past plural)
sofim (first-person plural present subjunctive)
sœfim (first-person past plural subjunctive)
svæfim (first-person past plural subjunctive)
sofið (indicative plural present second-person)
sófuð (indicative past plural second-person)
sváfuð (indicative past plural second-person)
sofið (plural present second-person subjunctive)
sœfið (past plural second-person subjunctive)
svæfið (past plural second-person subjunctive)
sofa (indicative plural present third-person)
sófu (indicative past plural third-person)
sváfu (indicative past plural third-person)
sofi (plural present subjunctive third-person)
sœfi (past plural subjunctive third-person)
svæfi (past plural subjunctive third-person)
sof (indicative present second-person singular)

Icelandic: sofa

Faroese: sova

Norwegian Nynorsk: sova, sove

Jamtish: sovo

Elfdalian: såvå

Old Swedish: sova

Swedish: sova

Old Danish: souæ

Danish: sove

Norwegian Bokmål: sove

Scanian: søva

Gutnish: syve


sofa

sofka (diminutive)
sofa (nominative singular)
sofy (nominative plural)
sofy (genitive singular)
sof (genitive plural)
sofie (dative singular)
sofom (dative plural)
sofę (accusative singular)
sofy (accusative plural)
sofą (instrumental singular)
sofami (instrumental plural)
sofie (locative singular)
sofach (locative plural)
sofo (singular vocative)
sofy (plural vocative)

Borrowed from French sofa, from Arabic صُفَّة (ṣuffa, “a long seat made of stone or brick”), from Aramaic צפא (ṣipā’, “mat”).


sofa

sofale (plural)
sofa (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
sofaua (accusative definite nominative singular)
sofale (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
sofalele (accusative definite nominative plural)
sofale (indefinite singular)
sofalei (definite singular)
sofalelor (definite plural)
sofa (singular vocative)
sofalelor (vocative)

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish [script needed] (sofa), from Arabic صُفَّة (ṣuffa, “a long seat made of stone or brick”), from Aramaic צפא (ṣipā’, “mat”).


sofa

sòfa (canonical feminine)
со̀фа (Cyrillic)
sofa (nominative singular)
sofe (nominative plural)
sofe (genitive singular)
sofa (genitive plural)
sofi (dative singular)
sofama (dative plural)
sofu (accusative singular)
sofe (accusative plural)
sofo (singular vocative)
sofe (plural vocative)
sofi (locative singular)
sofama (locative plural)
sofom (instrumental singular)
sofama (instrumental plural)


sofa

sofa class IX (canonical)
sofa class X (plural)


sofa

An area in the house where all rooms open into; hall, hallway.

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sofa (definite accusative sofayı, plural sofalar)

sofayı (accusative definite)
sofalar (plural)
sofa (nominative singular)
sofalar (nominative plural)
sofayı (accusative definite singular)
sofaları (accusative definite plural)
sofaya (dative singular)
sofalara (dative plural)
sofada (locative singular)
sofalarda (locative plural)
sofadan (ablative singular)
sofalardan (ablative plural)
sofanın (genitive singular)
sofaların (genitive plural)
sofam (first-person nominative singular)
sofalarım (first-person nominative singular)
sofan (nominative second-person singular)
sofaların (nominative second-person singular)
sofası (nominative singular third-person)
sofaları (nominative singular third-person)
sofamız (first-person nominative plural)
sofalarımız (first-person nominative plural)
sofanız (nominative plural second-person)
sofalarınız (nominative plural second-person)
sofaları (nominative plural third-person)
sofamı (accusative definite first-person singular)
sofalarımı (accusative definite first-person singular)
sofanı (accusative definite second-person singular)
sofalarını (accusative definite second-person singular)
sofasını (accusative definite singular third-person)
sofalarını (accusative definite singular third-person)
sofamızı (accusative definite first-person plural)
sofalarımızı (accusative definite first-person plural)
sofanızı (accusative definite plural second-person)
sofalarınızı (accusative definite plural second-person)
sofalarını (accusative definite plural third-person)
sofama (dative first-person singular)
sofalarıma (dative first-person singular)
sofana (dative second-person singular)
sofalarına (dative second-person singular)
sofasına (dative singular third-person)
sofalarına (dative singular third-person)
sofamıza (dative first-person plural)
sofalarımıza (dative first-person plural)
sofanıza (dative plural second-person)
sofalarınıza (dative plural second-person)
sofalarına (dative plural third-person)
sofamda (first-person locative singular)
sofalarımda (first-person locative singular)
sofanda (locative second-person singular)
sofalarında (locative second-person singular)
sofasında (locative singular third-person)
sofalarında (locative singular third-person)
sofamızda (first-person locative plural)
sofalarımızda (first-person locative plural)
sofanızda (locative plural second-person)
sofalarınızda (locative plural second-person)
sofalarında (locative plural third-person)
sofamdan (ablative first-person singular)
sofalarımdan (ablative first-person singular)
sofandan (ablative second-person singular)
sofalarından (ablative second-person singular)
sofasından (ablative singular third-person)
sofalarından (ablative singular third-person)
sofamızdan (ablative first-person plural)
sofalarımızdan (ablative first-person plural)
sofanızdan (ablative plural second-person)
sofalarınızdan (ablative plural second-person)
sofalarından (ablative plural third-person)
sofamın (first-person genitive singular)
sofalarımın (first-person genitive singular)
sofanın (genitive second-person singular)
sofalarının (genitive second-person singular)
sofasının (genitive singular third-person)
sofalarının (genitive singular third-person)
sofamızın (first-person genitive plural)
sofalarımızın (first-person genitive plural)
sofanızın (genitive plural second-person)
sofalarınızın (genitive plural second-person)
sofalarının (genitive plural third-person)

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish صفه (ṣuffa, ṣofa, “a porch or hall with benches, a recess in a hall or ante-room”), from Arabic صُفَّة (ṣuffa, “bench, sofa, vestibule”).


sofa

sofa (nominative singular)
sofad (nominative plural)
sofan (accusative singular)
sofad (accusative plural)
sofan (genitive singular)
sofiden (genitive plural)
sofad (partitive singular)
sofid (partitive plural)
sofan (essive-instructive singular)
sofin (essive-instructive plural)
sofaks (singular translative)
sofikš (plural translative)
sofas (inessive singular)
sofiš (inessive plural)
sofaspäi (elative singular)
sofišpäi (elative plural)
sofaha (illative singular)
sofha (illative singular)
sofihe (illative plural)
sofal (adessive singular)
sofil (adessive plural)
sofalpäi (ablative singular)
sofilpäi (ablative plural)
sofale (allative singular)
sofile (allative plural)
sofata (abessive singular)
sofita (abessive plural)
sofanke (comitative singular)
sofidenke (comitative plural)
sofadme (prolative singular)
sofidme (plural prolative)
sofanno (approximative approximative-i singular)
sofidenno (approximative approximative-i plural)
sofannoks (approximative approximative-ii singular)
sofidennoks (approximative approximative-ii plural)
sofannopäi (egressive singular)
sofidennopäi (egressive plural)
sofahasai (singular terminative terminative-i)
sofhasai (singular terminative terminative-i)
sofihesai (plural terminative terminative-i)
sofalesai (singular terminative terminative-ii)
sofilesai (plural terminative terminative-ii)
sofassai (singular terminative terminative-iii)
sofahapäi (additive additive-i singular)
sofhapäi (additive additive-i singular)
sofihepäi (additive additive-i plural)
sofalepäi (additive additive-ii singular)
sofilepäi (additive additive-ii plural)