sofia
/ˈsoʊfiə/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.74 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
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A female given name, variant of Sophia.
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The capital city of Bulgaria.
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The capital city of Bulgaria.
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A river in northwestern Madagascar.
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A region of Madagascar around the river.
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Acronym of Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, a telescope atop a Boeing 747SP aircraft with an effective diameter of 2.5 meters at altitudes up to 13.7 kilometers.
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Example Sentences
- "Every year in California thousands of parents choose names such as José, Andrés and Sofía for their children, often honoring the memory of a deceased grandmother, aunt or sibling. On the state-issued birth certificates, though, those names will be spelled incorrectly."
Etymology
Variant spelling of Sophia and from various other languages' own adaptations of Ancient Greek Σοφία (Sophía, “wisdom, especially divine wisdom”). Sometimes borrowed into English as an anglicization of an accented or closely related form, as with Spanish Sofía, Welsh Soffia, and Hungarian Zsófia. As the capital of Bulgaria, via nonstandard, though now official, romanization of Bulgarian Со́фия (Sófija), from църква „Света София“ (cărkva „Sveta Sofija“), from Byzantine Greek Ναός Ἁγίας Σοφίας (Naós Hagías Sophías, “Church of Holy Wisdom”), the city's prominent 6th-century Byzantine Greek church, first attested being used as the name for the city in the 14th century and reinforced under Ottoman rule as Ottoman Turkish صوفیه (Sofya). Compare the name of the Hagia Sophia.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Σοφία, Со́фия, Ναός Ἁγίας Σοφίας, صوفیه, Sofia
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈsoʊfiə/
- British English: /ˈsəʊfi.ə/
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Synonyms
Serdica
Serdonpolis
Triaditza
Sredets