sofa

Senso (Inglese)

couch; sofa

Genere

♂️ Maschile

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/sɔ.fa/

Etimologia (Inglese)

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.
Note casually that Arabic itself uses كَنَبة (kanaba) for “sofa”, from French canapé.