couch

Etymology 1
From, , from , from the verb (see below). .

Noun

 * 1)  An item of furniture, often upholstered, for the comfortable seating of more than one person; a sofa.
 * 2) A bed, a resting-place.
 * 3) The den of an otter.
 * 4)  A preliminary layer, as of colour or size.
 * 5)  A mass of steeped barley spread upon a floor to germinate, in malting; or the floor occupied by the barley.
 * 6)  Psychotherapy.
 * He spent years on the couch going over his traumatic childhood.
 * 1)  Voters who opt out of voting, usually by staying home on their couch.
 * 1) The den of an otter.
 * 2)  A preliminary layer, as of colour or size.
 * 3)  A mass of steeped barley spread upon a floor to germinate, in malting; or the floor occupied by the barley.
 * 4)  Psychotherapy.
 * He spent years on the couch going over his traumatic childhood.
 * 1)  Voters who opt out of voting, usually by staying home on their couch.
 * 1)  A mass of steeped barley spread upon a floor to germinate, in malting; or the floor occupied by the barley.
 * 2)  Psychotherapy.
 * He spent years on the couch going over his traumatic childhood.
 * 1)  Voters who opt out of voting, usually by staying home on their couch.
 * 1)  Psychotherapy.
 * He spent years on the couch going over his traumatic childhood.
 * 1)  Voters who opt out of voting, usually by staying home on their couch.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: فِرَاش,, مَضْجَع
 * Egyptian Arabic: كنبة
 * Hijazi Arabic: كنبة
 * South Levantine Arabic: كنباية
 * Armenian: ,
 * Belarusian: канапа
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Carpathian Rusyn: ді́ван, ґавч
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 長沙發椅
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:, briks, leje
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: sofo
 * Estonian: diivan
 * Finnish:, leposohva
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: ტახტი
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: λέχος
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Irish:
 * Italian: canapè, ,
 * Japanese: カウチ, ,
 * Korean: 카우치,
 * Latin: cubīle,, sponda, pulvīnar
 * Malay: sofa
 * Maltese: sufan
 * Maori: hōpa
 * Norman: longue tchaîse
 * Northern Sami: soffá, suffá
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: sofa
 * Ojibwe: genwaakwak apabiwin
 * Ottoman Turkish: قاناپه, صفه
 * Persian:, سوفا
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese:, cadeirão
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Scottish Gaelic: langasaid
 * Serbo-Croatian: ,
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene: kavč
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: kawč
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: ,
 * Vietnamese: đi văng
 * Welsh: glwth

Etymology 2
From, from , , from , from +. .

Verb

 * 1) To lie down; to recline (upon a couch or other place of repose).
 * 2) To bend the body, as in reverence, pain, labor, etc.; to stoop; to crouch.
 * 3)  To lay something upon a bed or other resting place.
 * 4)  To arrange or dispose as if in a bed.
 * 5) * 1684,, The Theory of the Earth: Containing an Account of the Original of the Earth, and of All the General Changes which it Hath Already Undergone, or Is to Undergo, Till the Consummation of All Things, volume I, London: Printed by R[oger] Norton for Walter Kettilby, 12330969 , book I; republished as The Theory of the Earth: Containing an Account of the Original of the Earth, and of All the General Changes which it Hath Already Undergone, or Is to Undergo, Till the Consummation of All Things. The Two First Books Concerning the Deluge, and Concerning Paradise, 3rd edition, volume I, London: Printed for R[oger] N[orton] for Walter Kettilby, at the Bishop's-Head in S. Paul's Church-Yard, 1697,  228725686 , page 56:
 * [T]he Sea and the Land make one Globe, and the waters couch themſelves, as cloſe as may be, to the Center of this Globe in a Spherical convexity; ſo that if all the Mountains and Hills were ſcal'd, and the Earth made even, the Waters would not overflow its ſmooth ſurface;
 * 1)  To lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed.
 * 2) * 1627,, “VIII. Century”, in Sylua Syluarum: or A Naturall Historie: in Ten Centuries. VVritten by the Right Honourable Francis Lo[rd] Verulam Viscount St. Alban. Published after the Authors Death, by VVilliam Rawley Doctor of Diuinitie, late His Lordships Chaplaine, London: Printed by I[ohn] H[aviland and Augustine Mathewes] for William Lee at the Turks Head in Fleet-street, next to the Miter, 606502643 ; republished as Sylva Sylvarvm: or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centvries. Written by the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam Viscount St. Alban. Published after the Authors Death, by William Rawley Doctor in Divinitie, One of His Majesties Chaplaines. Hereunto is now Added an Alphabeticall Table of the Principall Things Contained in the Whole Worke, London: Printed by John Haviland for William Lee, and are to be sold by John Williams, 1635,  606502717 , page 197:
 * It is, at this Day, in uſe, in Gaza, to couch Pot-Sheards or Veſſels of Earth, in their Walls, to gather the Wind from the top, and to paſſe it downe in Spouts into Roomes. It is a Device for Freſhneſſe, in great Heats;
 * 1)  To lower (a spear or lance) to the position of attack.
 * 2)  In the treatment of a cataract in the eye, to displace the opaque lens with a sharp object such as a needle. The technique is regarded as largely obsolete.
 * 3)  To transfer (for example, sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire mould to a felt blanket for further drying.
 * 4)  To attach a thread onto  with small stitches in order to add.
 * 5) To phrase in a particular style; to use specific wording for.
 * 6)  To lie down for concealment; to conceal, to hide; to be concealed; to be included or involved darkly or secretly.
 * 7) * 1832,, “The State of Sacred Science: ‘Thy Testimonies are My Meditation’”, in Saturday Evening, London: Holdsworth and Ball, 262702496 ; republished Hingham, Mass.: Published by C. & E. B. Gill [...], 1833,  191249371 , page 91:
 * Or who, regardless of the powers of calumny that keep their state as ministers of vengeance around the throne of ancient Prejudice, explores anew the half-hidden, half-revealed wonders, that yet couch beneath the words of the Scripture?
 * It is, at this Day, in uſe, in Gaza, to couch Pot-Sheards or Veſſels of Earth, in their Walls, to gather the Wind from the top, and to paſſe it downe in Spouts into Roomes. It is a Device for Freſhneſſe, in great Heats;
 * 1)  To lower (a spear or lance) to the position of attack.
 * 2)  In the treatment of a cataract in the eye, to displace the opaque lens with a sharp object such as a needle. The technique is regarded as largely obsolete.
 * 3)  To transfer (for example, sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire mould to a felt blanket for further drying.
 * 4)  To attach a thread onto  with small stitches in order to add.
 * 5) To phrase in a particular style; to use specific wording for.
 * 6)  To lie down for concealment; to conceal, to hide; to be concealed; to be included or involved darkly or secretly.
 * 7) * 1832,, “The State of Sacred Science: ‘Thy Testimonies are My Meditation’”, in Saturday Evening, London: Holdsworth and Ball, 262702496 ; republished Hingham, Mass.: Published by C. & E. B. Gill [...], 1833,  191249371 , page 91:
 * Or who, regardless of the powers of calumny that keep their state as ministers of vengeance around the throne of ancient Prejudice, explores anew the half-hidden, half-revealed wonders, that yet couch beneath the words of the Scripture?
 * 1)  To attach a thread onto  with small stitches in order to add.
 * 2) To phrase in a particular style; to use specific wording for.
 * 3)  To lie down for concealment; to conceal, to hide; to be concealed; to be included or involved darkly or secretly.
 * 4) * 1832,, “The State of Sacred Science: ‘Thy Testimonies are My Meditation’”, in Saturday Evening, London: Holdsworth and Ball, 262702496 ; republished Hingham, Mass.: Published by C. & E. B. Gill [...], 1833,  191249371 , page 91:
 * Or who, regardless of the powers of calumny that keep their state as ministers of vengeance around the throne of ancient Prejudice, explores anew the half-hidden, half-revealed wonders, that yet couch beneath the words of the Scripture?
 * 1)  To lie down for concealment; to conceal, to hide; to be concealed; to be included or involved darkly or secretly.
 * 2) * 1832,, “The State of Sacred Science: ‘Thy Testimonies are My Meditation’”, in Saturday Evening, London: Holdsworth and Ball, 262702496 ; republished Hingham, Mass.: Published by C. & E. B. Gill [...], 1833,  191249371 , page 91:
 * Or who, regardless of the powers of calumny that keep their state as ministers of vengeance around the throne of ancient Prejudice, explores anew the half-hidden, half-revealed wonders, that yet couch beneath the words of the Scripture?
 * 1)  To lie down for concealment; to conceal, to hide; to be concealed; to be included or involved darkly or secretly.
 * 2) * 1832,, “The State of Sacred Science: ‘Thy Testimonies are My Meditation’”, in Saturday Evening, London: Holdsworth and Ball, 262702496 ; republished Hingham, Mass.: Published by C. & E. B. Gill [...], 1833,  191249371 , page 91:
 * Or who, regardless of the powers of calumny that keep their state as ministers of vengeance around the throne of ancient Prejudice, explores anew the half-hidden, half-revealed wonders, that yet couch beneath the words of the Scripture?
 * 1) * 1832,, “The State of Sacred Science: ‘Thy Testimonies are My Meditation’”, in Saturday Evening, London: Holdsworth and Ball, 262702496 ; republished Hingham, Mass.: Published by C. & E. B. Gill [...], 1833,  191249371 , page 91:
 * Or who, regardless of the powers of calumny that keep their state as ministers of vengeance around the throne of ancient Prejudice, explores anew the half-hidden, half-revealed wonders, that yet couch beneath the words of the Scripture?

Translations

 * Bulgarian:, полягам
 * Danish: sig
 * French:
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Italian:


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish: affatte, udtrykke
 * French: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Polish: ubierać w słowa,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: ,

Etymology 3


From a variant of, from , , from.

Noun

 * 1) Couch grass, a species of persistent grass,, usually considered a weed.