sef

• IPA^(key): /sêf/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [sêɸ]

sêf m

1. safe (for money or valuables)

• IPA^(key): /sɛːv/
• Rhymes: -ɛːv

From Old Norse sef, possibly borrowed from Old Irish simin, sibin(n), from Proto-Indo-European *sem-ino?.[1] Otherwise from Proto-Germanic *seba-, which would suggest an irregular, non-Indo-European substrate root alternation *seb-, *sem-, similar to sandr.

sef n (genitive singular sefs, no plural)

1. rush (plant of the genus Juncus)

• blómsef (“three-flowered rush, Juncus triglumis”)
• dökkasef (“chestnut rush, Juncus castaneus”)
• fitjasef (“black-grass rush, Juncus gerardii”)
• flagasef (“two-flowered rush, Juncus biglumis”)
• laugasef (“jointleaf rush, Juncus articulatus”)
• lækjasef (“toad rush, Juncus bufonius”)
• móasef (“highland rush, Juncus trifolia”)
• mýrasef (“northern green rush, Juncus alpinoarticulatus”)
• þráðsef (“thread rush, Juncus filiformis”)

Inflected form of sofa (“to sleep”).

sef

1. first-person singular present indicative of sofa

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sef n (genitive sefs)

1. sedge, rush

• Danish: siv
• Icelandic: sef
• Norwegian Nynorsk: siv
• Norwegian Bokmål: siv
• Swedish: säv

• “sef”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

sef n (plural sefuri)

1. Alternative form of seif

From English safe.

• IPA^(key): /sêf/

sȅf m (Cyrillic spelling се̏ф)

1. safe, strongbox

From English safe.

• IPA^(key): /séːf/

sẹ̑f m inan

1. safe (a box, usually made of metal, in which valuables can be locked for safekeeping)

• “sef”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Cognate with Persian سیب (sib).

sef

1. apple

From Middle Welsh ysef, yssef, from ys (“is”) + ef (“it”).

• IPA^(key): /seːv/

sef

1. that is to say, that is, namely