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–noun
a long, upholstered couch with a back and two arms or raised ends.

[Origin: 1615–25; < Turk < Ar ṣuffah platform used as a seat]
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so·fa    Audio Help   (sō'fə)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   A long upholstered seat typically with a back and arms.


[Turkish, from Arabic ṣuffa, carpet, divan, from Aramaic ṣippā, absolute form of ṣippətā, mat; see ṣpp in Semitic roots.]

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sofa 
1625, "raised section of a floor, covered with carpets and cushions," from Turk. sofa, from Ar. suffah "bench." Meaning "long stuffed seat for reclining" is recorded from 1717.

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sofa

noun
an upholstered seat for more than one person 

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sofa [ˈsəufə] noun
a kind of long seat, stuffed and with a back and arms
Example: We were sitting on the sofa.
Arabic: أريكَه
Chinese (Simplified): 沙发
Chinese (Traditional): 沙發
Czech: pohovka
Danish: sofa
Dutch: sofa
Estonian: diivan, sohva
Finnish: sohva
French: sofa
German: das Sofa
Greek: καναπές
Hungarian: kanapé
Icelandic: sófi
Indonesian: sofa
Italian: sofà, divano
Japanese: ソファー
Korean: 소파
Latvian: sofa; dīvāns
Lithuanian: sofa
Norwegian: sofa
Polish: kanapa
Portuguese (Brazil): sofá
Portuguese (Portugal): sofá
Romanian: canapea, sofa
Russian: диван
Slovak: pohovka
Slovenian: zofa
Spanish: sofá
Swedish: soffa
Turkish: kanape, sedir
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Sofa

So"fa\, n.; pl. Sofas. [Ar. soffah, from saffa to dispose in order: cf. F. sofa, It. sof[`a].] A long seat, usually with a cushioned bottom, back, and ends; -- much used as a comfortable piece of furniture.

Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round. --Cowper.

Sofa bed, a sofa so contrived that it may be extended to form a bed; -- called also sofa bedstead.

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