софа
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See also: Соф'я
Russian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French sofa or Italian sofà, ultimately from Arabic صُفَّة (ṣuffa, “a long seat made of stone or brick”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]софа́ • (sofá) f inan (genitive софы́, nominative plural со́фы, genitive plural соф)
- 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
[edit]Declension of софа́ (inan fem-form hard-stem accent-f/d)
Descendants
[edit]- → Veps: sofa
Serbo-Croatian
[edit]Noun
[edit]со̀фа f (Latin spelling sòfa)
Declension
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