sofa

The story

1. Arabic · derived fromصُفَّة“a long seat made of stone or brick, covered with rich carpets and cushions and used for sitting”
2. French · borrowed fromsofa
3. English todaysofa

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.