sofa – French noun declension

Noun: sofa
Gender: m Hyphenation:

Singular m	sofa
Plural m	sofas

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like sofa

trichogramme, wintergreen, urinoir, contrespionnage, aréomètre, palefroi, whiskey, whippin, tee-shirt, hypocycloïde, surrisque, lanternon, dissentiment, phonogramme, phonographe, trioxygène, fétichisme, synode, synthé, modérantisme, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

1. Ultimately from Arabic صُفَّة (ṣuffa, “a long seat made of stone or brick”), from Aramaic צפא (ṣipā’, “mat”)/Classical Syriac ܨܦܬܐ. The word may have entered French via Turkish sofa.
2. Note casually that Arabic itself uses كَنَبة (kanaba) for “sofa”, from French canapé. See: French Nouns 'canapé'.

Verbs referencing "sofa"

English Nouns sofa, Danish Nouns sofa, Dutch Nouns sofa, Polish Nouns sofa, German Nouns Sofa, Galician Nouns sofá, Portuguese Nouns sofá, Spanish Nouns sofá, Catalan Nouns sofà, Russian Nouns софа.

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