Sofia

Etymology 1
Variant spelling of and from various other languages' own adaptions of. Sometimes borrowed into English as an anglicization of an accented or closely related form, as with Spanish, Welsh , and Hungarian.

As the capital of Bulgaria, via nonstandard romanization of, from „ София“ (cǎrkva "Sveta Sofija"), from    (Naós Hagías Sophías, “Church of Holy Wisdom”), the city's prominent , first attested being used as the name for the city in the 14th century and reinforced under Ottoman rule as.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: Sofia
 * Albanian:, Sofje
 * Amharic: ሶፊያ
 * Arabic: صُوفْيَا
 * Hijazi Arabic: صوفيا
 * Armenian: Սոֆիա
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Belarusian: Сафі́я
 * Bengali: সোফিয়া
 * Bulgarian: Со́фия
 * Burmese: ဆိုဖီယာမြို့
 * Catalan: Sofia
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 索非亞
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: Sofija, Sofia
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: סוֹפִיָה
 * Hindi: सोफ़िया
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: Sófía
 * Indonesian: Sofia
 * Irish: Sóifia
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kabardian: Софие
 * Kazakh: София
 * Khmer:
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: Sofya
 * Kyrgyz: София
 * Lao: ໂຊເຟຍ
 * Latin: Serdica
 * Latvian: Sofija
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay: Sofia
 * Maltese: Sofja
 * Marathi: सोफिया
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: Софи
 * Navajo: Sóóbiya
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: Sofia
 * Ottoman Empire: صوفيه, صوفیه
 * Pashto: صوفيه
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: Со̀фија
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: Sofia
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: Sopiya
 * Tajik: София
 * Tamil: ஸோபியா
 * Thai: โซเฟีย
 * Tibetan: སོ་ཧྥི་ཡ
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: Sofiýa
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: صوفیہ
 * Uyghur: سوفىيە
 * Uzbek: Sofiya
 * Vietnamese: Sách Phi Á, Xô-phi-a
 * Yiddish: סאָפֿיע

Etymology 2
From of  origin. The region is named for the river.

Proper noun

 * 1)  around the river.
 * 1)  around the river.

Etymology
Ultimately from. The sense "Sofia (Bulgaria)" is through.

Etymology 2
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Etymology 1
See.

Etymology 2
, named after the.

Etymology 1
From, renamed after the Church of St. Sofia in 1376.

Etymology 1
From, renamed after the Church of St. Sofia in 1376.

Etymology
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Etymology
Ultimately of origin. First recorded as a given name in Sweden in 1380 as Sophia.