صفه
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See also: صفة
Ottoman Turkish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Arabic صُفَّة (ṣuffa, “stone bench; sofa”).
Noun[edit]
صفه • (sofa)
- porch or hall with benches on which to rest
- recess in a hall or anteroom with a sofa on its sides
- sofa, an upholstered seat with a raised back
- Synonym: قاناپه (kanape)
Derived terms[edit]
- صفهلو (sofalı, “furnished with a bench”)
Descendants[edit]
- Turkish: sofa
Further reading[edit]
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sofa1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4277
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صفه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 763
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “صفه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[2], Vienna, column 2970
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sofa”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صفه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1179