sofa

Etymology 1
Borrowed from, ultimately from , a long seat made of stone or brick, covered with rich carpets and cushions and used for sitting upon. Cognate with 🇨🇬/ܨܦܬܐ (ṣipā’, ṣeppəṯā, “mat, matting”). The word may have entered European languages via Muslim Iberia or through Turkish.



Noun

 * 1)  A raised area of a building's floor, usually covered with carpeting, used for sitting.
 * 2)  An upholstered seat with a raised back and one or two raised ends, long enough to comfortably accommodate two or more people.

Translations

 * Albanian: ,
 * Arabic:, كَنَبَة, , دِيوَان
 * Egyptian Arabic: كنبة
 * Hijazi Arabic: كنبة
 * Iraqi Arabic: قنفة
 * Armenian: ,
 * Assamese: চোফা
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Belarusian: кана́па, сафа́
 * Bengali:
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:, ,
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Central Dusun: sofa
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese:
 * Dungan: диван
 * Hokkien:
 * Mandarin:
 * Wu: 沙發
 * Crimean Tatar: divan
 * Czech:, , ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Erzya: чевтезем
 * Esperanto: sofo, kanapo
 * Estonian: sohva
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ტახტი
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: सोफ़ा,
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Interlingua: sofa
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:, , , カウチ
 * Kazakh: диван
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:, 카우치, 쇼파
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ຊໍ່ຟ້າ, ເກົ້າອີ້ຍາວ, ເກົ້າອີ້ນອນ
 * Latin: cubīle,, sponda, pulvīnar
 * Latvian: dīvāns, sofa
 * Lithuanian: ,
 * Lü: ᦌᦱᧈᦝᦱᧉ
 * Macedonian: софа, диван, кауч, канабе
 * Malay: sofa
 * Malayalam: സോഫ
 * Maltese: sufan
 * Maori: hōpa
 * Marathi: सोफा
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:, софа, диван
 * Mongolian: ᠪᠤᠶᠢᠳᠠᠩ, ᠱᠠᠹᠠ, ᠳ᠋ᠢᠸᠠᠨ
 * Norman: jontchéthe, sofa
 * Northern Sami: suffá
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Ottoman Turkish: قاناپه, صفه
 * Pashto: ,
 * Persian:, , ,
 * Plautdietsch: Soofa, Kwotsch
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, , , ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Scottish Gaelic: langasaid, suaineachan, sunnag
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ле̏жа̄ј, дѝва̄н, со̀фа
 * Roman:, ,
 * Sinhalese: සෝෆා
 * Slovak: pohovka, diván, sofa
 * Slovene: kavč, zofa
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Sylheti: ꠍꠥꠚꠣ
 * Tagalog: sopa
 * Tajik:, диван, нимкат
 * Tatar: диван
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: རྐུབ་ཀྱག་སོ་ཕྰ
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: diwan
 * Ukrainian: софа́, ,
 * Urdu: صوفہ
 * Uyghur: دىۋان, سافا
 * Uzbek:, ,
 * Vietnamese: xô-pha, ghế xô-pha, đi văng
 * Welsh:, glwth, glythau
 * Wutunhua: shafa
 * Yiddish: סאָפֿע
 * Zhuang: sahfaz

Verb

 * 1) To furnish with one or more sofas.
 * 2) To seat or lay down on a sofa.
 * 1) To seat or lay down on a sofa.
 * 1) To seat or lay down on a sofa.
 * 1) To seat or lay down on a sofa.
 * 1) To seat or lay down on a sofa.

Noun

 * 1)  A slave soldier who served in the army of the Mali Empire.

Noun

 * , couch, divan, settee

Etymology
Borrowed from, perhaps via , ultimately from.

Noun

 * 1)  A couch, a.

Etymology
Ultimately from, from /. The word may have entered French via Turkish.

Note casually that Arabic itself uses for “sofa”, from 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) couch;

Etymology
From, from.

Verb

 * 1)  to sleep

Etymology
From, from , ultimately from.

Noun

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

Etymology
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Verb

 * 1) to suffer, to be troubled, to be distressed

Derived terms

 * sofarieshan

Etymology
or, ultimately from. Compare 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) sofa, couch

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * , couch

Noun

 * 1) a  or couch

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1) to sleep

Etymology
, from, from.

Noun

 * , couch

Etymology
, from, from.

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) sofa

Etymology
, from.

Noun

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

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) sofa