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sofa: Aramaic → Arabic → Romanian · Lexodus

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sofa

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish [script needed] (sofa), from Arabic صُفَّة (ṣuffa, “a long seat made of stone or brick”), from Aramaic צפא (ṣipā’, “mat”).

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This journey was extracted automatically from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and hasn't been checked by a person yet. Dates marked “c.” are estimated from each language's period, and every hop is graded at best “probable”.

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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. 1600

Hops are evenly spaced; labels show the year each form is first attested.