sofa
Plural: sofas
Noun
- A long upholstered seat with a back and arms.
- an upholstered seat for more than one person
- A raised area of a building's floor, usually covered with carpeting, used for sitting.
- An upholstered seat with a raised back and one or two raised ends, long enough to comfortably accommodate two or more people.
- A slave soldier who served in the army of the Mali Empire.
Verb
- To furnish with one or more sofas.
- To seat or lay down on a sofa.
Examples
- He arranged his tiles like a comfy ’SOFA’ across the Scrabble board, ready for the next move.
- He bought a big sofa two days before his relatives arrived.
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from French sofa, ultimately from Arabic صُفَّة (ṣuffa, “a long seat made of stone or brick, covered with rich carpets and cushions and used for sitting”). Cognate with Aramaic צפא/Classical Syriac ܨܦܬܐ (ṣipā’, ṣeppəṯā, “mat, matting”). The word may have entered European languages via Muslim Iberia or through Turkish.
Scrabble Score: 7
sofa: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordsofa: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
sofa: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 7
sofa: valid Words With Friends Word