sofo

Borrowed from French sofa, ultimately from either Arabic صُفَّة (ṣuffa, “long seat of stone or brick”) or Classical Syriac ܨܦܬܐ. Compare Russian софа (sofa), Italian sofà, Chinese 沙發／沙发 (shāfā), Polish sofa, Spanish sofá, German Sofa, Yiddish סאָפֿע (sofe).

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• IPA^(key): [ˈsofo]
• Rhymes: -ofo
• Hyphenation: so‧fo

sofo (accusative singular sofon, plural sofoj, accusative plural sofojn)

1. sofa, couch

   La katido dormas sur la sofo. ― The kitten is sleeping on the couch.

Borrowed from Latin sophus, from Ancient Greek σοφός (sophós, “wise”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɔ.fo/
• Rhymes: -ɔfo
• Hyphenation: sò‧fo

sofo m (plural sofi)

1. (literary, chiefly ironic or derogatory) scholar, philosopher

• sofo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

From Proto-North Halmahera *sopok (“fruit”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈso.fo/

sofo

1. fruit

sofo

1. (intransitive) to bear fruit

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh