Sofia

See also: -sofia, SOFIA, Sofía, Sófia, Sófía, and sofia

English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈsəʊfi.ə/, /sɒˈfiːə/
- Audio (UK) (file)
Rhymes: -əʊfiə

Etymology 1

From Bulgarian Со́фия (Sófija, “Sophie, Sophia”), named after the Church of St. Sofia.

Proper noun

Sofia

The capital city of Bulgaria.

Derived terms

Sofian

Translations

the capital city of Bulgaria

Albanian: Sofja (sq) f, Sofje f (indefinite)
Amharic: ሶፊያ (sofiya)
Arabic: صُوفْيَا‎ f (ṣūfyā)
Armenian: Սոֆիա (Sofia)
Azerbaijani: Sofiya (az)
Belarusian: Сафі́я f (Safíja)
Bengali: সোফিয়া (sophiya)
Bulgarian: Со́фия f (Sófija)
Burmese: ဆိုဖီယာမြို့ (hcuihpiya-mrui.)
Catalan: Sofia f
Chinese:
Cantonese: 索非亞, 索非亚 (sok³ fei¹ aa³)
Mandarin: 索非亞／索非亚 (zh) (Suǒfēiyà)
Czech: Sofie (cs) f
Danish: Sofija, Sofia
Dutch: Sofia (nl) n
Esperanto: Sofio (eo)
Estonian: Sofia (et)
Finnish: Sofia (fi)
French: Sofia (fr) f
Galician: Sofía (gl)
Georgian: სოფია (sopia)
German: Sofia (de)
Greek: Σόφια (el) (Sófia)
Hebrew: סוֹפִיָה‎ f (sófiya)
Hindi: सोफ़िया m (sofiyā)
Hungarian: Szófia (hu)
Icelandic: Sófía
Indonesian: Sofia
Irish: Sóifia m
Italian: Sofia (it)
Japanese: ソフィア (Sofia)
Kabardian: Софие (Soofiije)
Kazakh: София (Sofiä)
Khmer: សូភ្វីយ៉ា (km) (soufiiyaa)
Korean: 소피아 (ko) (Sopia), 쏘피아 (ko) (Ssopia) (North Korea)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: Sofya
Kyrgyz: София (Sofiya)
Lao: ໂຊເຟຍ (sō fīa)
Latin: Serdica f
Latvian: Sofija f
Lithuanian: Sofija (lt) f
Macedonian: Софија (mk) f (Sofija)
Malay: Sofia
Maltese: Sofja
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: Софи (Sofi)
Navajo: Sóóbiya
Norwegian:
Bokmål: Sofia (no)
Nynorsk: Sofia
Pashto: صوفيه‎ (sofīya)
Persian: صوفیا‎ (fa) (sofiyâ), صوفیه‎ (fa) (sofiye)
Polish: Sofia (pl) f
Portuguese: Sófia (pt)
Romanian: Sofia (ro)
Russian: Софи́я (ru) f (Sofíja)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Со̀фија f
Roman: Sòfija (sh) f
Slovak: Sofia f
Slovene: Sofija (sl) f
Spanish: Sofía (es)
Swedish: Sofia (sv)
Tagalog: Sopiya
Tajik: София (Sofiya)
Tamil: ஸோபியா (sōpiyā)
Thai: โซเฟีย (soo-fiia)
Tibetan: སོ་ཧྥི་ཡ (so hphi ya)
Turkish: Sofya (tr)
Turkmen: Sofiýa
Ukrainian: Софі́я (uk) f (Sofíja)
Urdu: صوفیہ‎ m (sofiyā)
Uyghur: سوفىيە‎ (sofiye)
Uzbek: Sofiya
Vietnamese: Sách Phi Á, Xô-phi-a
Yiddish: סאָפֿיע‎ n (sofye)

Etymology 2

A less common spelling, borrowed from continental Europe, of the given name Sophia.

Proper noun

Sofia

A female given name from Ancient Greek
A river, and surrounding region of Madagascar

Catalan

Pronunciation

(Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /suˈfi.ə/

(Valencian) IPA^(key): /soˈfi.a/

Proper noun

Sofia f

a female given name, equivalent to English Sophia
Sofia (the capital city of Bulgaria)

Danish

Proper noun

Sofia

Sofia (the capital city of Bulgaria)
a female given name, variant of Sofie, equivalent to English Sophia

Estonian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈsofiɑ/

Proper noun

Sofia

Sofia (the capital city of Bulgaria)

Finnish

Etymology

Ultimately from Ancient Greek σοφία (sophía). The sense "Sofia (Bulgaria)" is through Bulgarian Со́фия (Sófija).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈsofiɑ/, [ˈs̠o̞fiɑ]
Rhymes: -ofiɑ
Syllabification^(key): So‧fi‧a

Proper noun

Sofia

Sofia (the capital city of Bulgaria)
a female given name, equivalent to English Sophia
- 1959 Väinö Linna, Täällä Pohjantähden alla 1 (WSOY 1965), page 181:
  Kehdossa makasi juuri äskettäin pappilassa kasteella ollut tyttö, jonka nimenkin rouva muisti: Elma. Se oli hänen antamansa nimi. Vanhemmat olivat tahtoneet Sofiaa, mutta rouva oli saanut kuin saanutkin tytölle suomalaisperäisen nimen. Tosin vain siksi ettei Anttoo pitänyt asiaa millään tavoin tärkeänä.
  (please add an English translation of this quote)
- 1990, Riitta Vartti, Sun lapsuutes, Gummerus, →ISBN, page 407:
  —Äiti, minkäs takia mummun nimi on Adalmina ja Sohvi-tätin nimi on Sofia, vaikkei ne oo mitää ruotsinkielisiä?
  —No, ohan meiän vanha sukunimiki S-t-rantperk, vaikkei sitä osaa kukaa ees lausuu oikei. Ennen vanhaa ihmisille pantii sellasia nimiä. Meiän setähä se suomens nimesä ja se on Rantakallio nytte.
  (please add an English translation of this quote)

Declension

Inflection of Sofia (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
nominative		Sofia	Sofiat
genitive		Sofian	Sofioiden Sofioitten
partitive		Sofiaa	Sofioita
illative		Sofiaan	Sofioihin
		singular	plural
nominative		Sofia	Sofiat
accusative	nom.	Sofia	Sofiat
accusative	gen.	Sofian	Sofiat
genitive		Sofian	Sofioiden Sofioitten Sofiain^rare
partitive		Sofiaa	Sofioita
inessive		Sofiassa	Sofioissa
elative		Sofiasta	Sofioista
illative		Sofiaan	Sofioihin
adessive		Sofialla	Sofioilla
ablative		Sofialta	Sofioilta
allative		Sofialle	Sofioille
essive		Sofiana	Sofioina
translative		Sofiaksi	Sofioiksi
instructive		—	Sofioin
abessive		Sofiatta	Sofioitta
comitative		—	Sofioineen

Possessive forms of Sofia (type kulkija)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	Sofiani	Sofiamme
2nd person	Sofiasi	Sofianne
3rd person	Sofiansa

Related terms

(given name) Sohvi, Sonja

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sɔ.fja/
Audio (file)

Proper noun

Sofia f

Sofia (the capital city of Bulgaria)

German

Pronunciation

Audio (file)

Proper noun

Sofia f (proper noun, genitive Sofias or Sofia, plural Sofias)

a female given name, a less common variant of Sophia

Declension

Declension of Sofia [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Sofia	die	Sofias
genitive	einer	der	Sofias, Sofia	der	Sofias
dative	einer	der	Sofia	den	Sofias
accusative	eine	die	Sofia	die	Sofias

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Bulgarian Со́фия (Sófija).

Proper noun

Sofia n (proper noun, genitive Sofias or (optionally with an article) Sofia)

Sofia (the capital city of Bulgaria)

Declension

Declension of Sofia [sg-only, neuter, toponym]

	singular
	def.	noun
nominative	das	Sofia
genitive	des	Sofias, Sofia¹
dative	dem	Sofia
accusative	das	Sofia

¹Optionally with an article.

Italian

Etymology 1

See Sophia.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /soˈfi.a/
Rhymes: -ia
Hyphenation: So‧fì‧a

Proper noun

Sofia f

a female given name, equivalent to English Sophia

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Bulgarian София (Sofija, “Sophie, Sophia”), named after the Church of St. Sofia.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈsɔ.fja/
Rhymes: -ɔfja
Hyphenation: Sò‧fia

Proper noun

Sofia f

Sofia (the capital city of Bulgaria)

Anagrams

afosi

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Bulgarian София (Sofija), renamed after the Church of St. Sofia in 1376.

Proper noun

Sofia

Sofia (the capital city of Bulgaria)

Proper noun

Sofia

a female given name, variant of Sofie, equivalent to English Sophia

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Bulgarian София (Sofija), renamed after the Church of St. Sofia in 1376.

Proper noun

Sofia

Sofia (the capital city of Bulgaria)

Proper noun

Sofia

a female given name, variant of Sofie, equivalent to English Sophia

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Bulgarian Со́фия (Sófija).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈsɔ.fja/
Audio (file)
Rhymes: -ɔfja
Syllabification: So‧fia

Proper noun

Sofia f

Sofia (the capital city of Bulgaria)

Declension

Declension of Sofia

	singular
nominative	Sofia
genitive	Sofii
dative	Sofii
accusative	Sofię
instrumental	Sofią
locative	Sofii
vocative	Sofio

Derived terms

adjective

sofijski

nouns

sofijczyk
sofijka

Portuguese

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /soˈfi.ɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /soˈfi.a/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /suˈfi.ɐ/

Proper noun

Sofia f

a female given name, equivalent to English Sophia
Alternative form of Sófia

Slovak

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈsofi̯a]

Proper noun

Sofia f (genitive singular Sofie, declension pattern of ulica)

Sofia (the capital city of Bulgaria)

References

Sofia in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Swedish

Etymology

Ultimately of Ancient Greek origin. First recorded as a given name in Sweden in 1380 as Sophia.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sʊ²fiːa/

Proper noun

Sofia c (genitive Sofias)

Sofia (the capital city of Bulgaria)
a female given name, equivalent to English Sophia

Related terms

(given name): Sofi, Sofie, Sonja, Sophia, Sophie

References

Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 88 488 females with the given name Sofia living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with frequency peaks in the 19th century and in the 1990s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.

Sofia

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Proper noun

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Catalan

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Danish

Proper noun

Estonian

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Finnish

Etymology

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Declension

Related terms

French

Pronunciation

Proper noun

German

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Declension

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Declension

Italian

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Anagrams

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

Proper noun

Proper noun

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Proper noun

Proper noun

Polish

Etymology

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Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

Portuguese

Pronunciation

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Slovak

Pronunciation

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References

Swedish

Etymology

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