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sofa

noun
/ˈsəʊ̯fə/UK/ˈsoʊ̯fə/US

Etymology

Borrowed from French sofa, ultimately from Arabic صُفَّة (ṣuffa, “a long seat made of stone or brick, covered with rich carpets and cushions and used for sitting”). Cognate with Aramaic צפא/Classical Syriac ܨܦܬܐ (ṣipā’, ṣeppəṯā, “mat, matting”). The word may have entered European languages via Muslim Iberia or through Turkish.

  1. derived from صُفَّة — “a long seat made of stone or brick, covered with rich carpets and cushions and used for sitting”
  2. borrowed from sofa

Definitions

  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…

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

    • He bought a big sofa two days before his relatives arrived.
    • His eyes trailed over her feline pose on the sofa, finding her limbs adorable while he tried exasperatedly to extract the truth of licentious revelations from them.
    • I can make money from the comfort of my sofa / So much drive, now I gotta get a chauffeur

  3. To furnish with one or more sofas.

    • I and another therefore entirely occupied our stateroom, which was sofaed round, being just large enough for two to lie down and a third to sit with his feet up and his head on his knees.
  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. To seat or lay down on a sofa.

      • A few, feeble words—my first—to tell you I have left my room this morning and am shaven and shorn and dressed and sofaed in my writing room, after a terrible ten days or more.
      • Many a time back in my boozing days when I was sofaed too.

    2. A slave soldier who served in the army of the Mali Empire.

      • 1884 Sofas conquer northern Sierra Leone. The sofas were soldiers of Mandinka empire builder, Samori Turay. Falaba, capital of Solima Yalunka kingdom, destroyed in the process.

    3. Acronym of Standards of Fundamental Astronomy.

    4. Acronym of Simulation Open Framework Architecture.

    5. Acronym of status of forces agreement, an agreement that allows long-term garrisoning of…

      Acronym of status of forces agreement, an agreement that allows long-term garrisoning of foreign troops in the host country.

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Derived

cornucopia sofa, moving sofa problem, sofa-bed, sofa-bedstead, sofa constant, sofaful, sofa king, sofaless, sofalike, sofa painting, sofa problem, sofa set, sofa sleeper, sofa-sleeper, sofa spud, sofa surf, sofa surfer, sofa surfing, sofa table

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at sofa. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at sofa. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at sofa

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA