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sofa: Aramaic → Arabic → French → Polish · Lexodus

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sofa

Borrowed from French sofa, from Arabic صُفَّة (ṣuffa, “a long seat made of stone or brick”), from Aramaic צפא (ṣipā’, “mat”).

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Wiktionary: sofa (CC BY-SA 4.0), via Wiktextract / kaikki.org

c. 650 BCEAramaic

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c. 650 BCE
c. 750 CE
c. 1700
c. 1720

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