sef

Hausa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sêf/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key):

Noun

sêf m

1. safe (for money or valuables)

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛːv/
• Rhymes: -ɛːv

Etymology 1

From Old Norse sef, possibly borrowed from Old Irish simin, sibin(n), from Proto-Indo-European *sem-ino?. Otherwise from Proto-Germanic *seba-, which would suggest an irregular, non-Indo-European substrate root alternation *seb-, *sem-, similar to sandr.

Noun

sef n (genitive singular sefs, no plural)

1. rush (plant of the genus Juncus)

Declension

Derived terms

• blómsef (“three-flowered rush, Juncus triglumis”)
• dökkasef (“chestnut rush, Juncus castaneus”)
• fitjasef (“black-grass rush, Juncus gerardii”)
• flagasef (“two-flowered rush, Juncus biglumis”)
• laugasef (“jointleaf rush, Juncus articulatus”)
• lækjasef (“toad rush, Juncus bufonius”)
• móasef (“highland rush, Juncus trifolia”)
• mýrasef (“northern green rush, Juncus alpinoarticulatus”)
• þráðsef (“thread rush, Juncus filiformis”)

Etymology 2

Inflected form of sofa (“to sleep”).

Verb

sef

1. first-person singular present indicative of sofa

References

Old Norse

Etymology

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Noun

sef n (genitive sefs)

1. sedge, rush

Descendants

• Danish: siv
• Icelandic: sef
• Norwegian Nynorsk: siv
• Norwegian Bokmål: siv
• Swedish: säv

References

• “sef”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Romanian

Noun

sef n (plural sefuri)

1. Alternative form of seif

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From English safe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sêf/

Noun

sȅf m (Cyrillic spelling се̏ф)

1. safe, strongbox

Declension

Slovene

Etymology

From English safe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /séːf/

Noun

sẹ̑f m inan

1. safe (a box, usually made of metal, in which valuables can be locked for safekeeping)

Inflection

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Further reading

• “sef”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Talysh

Etymology

Cognate with Persian سیب (sib).

Noun

sef

1. apple

Welsh

Etymology

From Middle Welsh ysef, yssef, from ys (“is”) + ef (“it”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /seːv/

Adverb

sef

1. that is to say, that is, namely