софа

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Софа

Etymology

Borrowed from French sofa or Italian sofà, ultimately from Arabic صُفَّة (ṣuffa, a long seat made of stone or brick).

Pronunciation

Noun

софа́ (sofáf inan (genitive софы́, nominative plural со́фы, genitive plural соф)

  1. a sofa whose back and sides have the same height; a canapé
    Hypernym: дива́н (diván)
    • 1866, Fyodor Dostoevsky, chapter III, in Преступленіе и наказаніе [Crime and Punishment]:
      — Чай-то отъ хозя́йки что ль? спроси́лъ онъ, ме́дленно и съ болѣ́з­неннымъ ви́домъ приподнима́ясь на софѣ́.
      — Čaj-to ot xozjájki što lʹ? sprosíl on, médlenno i s bolě́z­nennym vídom pripodnimájasʹ na sofě́.
      “And the tea, is it from the landlady or something?” he asked, while slowly and with a sickly look sitting up on the sofa.
    • 1913, Dmitry Merezhkovsky, chapter 2, in Александр I [Alexander I]:
      Лежа́л я на софе́, вскочи́л, как ошпа́ренный.
      Ležál ja na sofé, vskočíl, kak ošpárennyj.
      I was lying on the sofa and jolted up as if scalded with boiling water.
    • 2013, Борис Буянов, “Про Аглаю Гуслякову”, in Волга, volume 3:
      Веча́рами она́ лежа́ла изнемождённая на софе́ у тёти Ду́ни, и у неё абсолю́тно ни на что́ не́ было сил.
      Večárami oná ležála iznemoždjónnaja na sofé u tjóti Dúni, i u nejó absoljútno ni na štó né bylo sil.
      In the evenings she would lie, exhausted, on aunt Dunya's high-sided sofa, and would have no energy to do anything whatsoever.
    • 2019, Leonid Bezhin, chapter 8, in Колокольчики Папагено [The Bells of Papageno], →ISBN:
      Ты не Со́фа а софа́, и все́ на тебе́ бу́дут лежа́ть
      Ty ne Sófa a sofá, i vsé na tebé búdut ležátʹ
      You're not Sophy, you're a sofa, and everybody will lie on you.

Declension

Descendants

  • Veps: sofa

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

со̀фа f (Latin spelling sòfa)

  1. sofa

Declension