soda

From Italian soda.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsəʊdə/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsoʊdə/

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• Rhymes: -əʊdə

soda (countable and uncountable, plural sodas)

1. (uncountable) Sodium bicarbonate (usually baking soda).
2. (uncountable) Sodium carbonate (usually washing soda).
3. (uncountable) Sodium in chemical combination.
4. (uncountable) Carbonated water (water impregnated with pressurised carbon dioxide, originally made with sodium bicarbonate).
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 5, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

     A waiter brought his aperitif, which was a small scotch and soda, and as he sipped it gratefully he sighed.
        ‘Civilized,’ he said to Mr. Campion. ‘Humanizing.’ […] ‘Cigars and summer days and women in big hats with swansdown face-powder, that's what it reminds me of.’

5. (chiefly US, uncountable) Any carbonated (usually sweet) soft drink.
6. (chiefly US, countable) A glass, bottle or can of this drink.
7. (card games) The first card in the dealing box in the game of faro, which is discarded to leave 51 cards in play.

• (drink, glass of this drink): carbonated drink, fizzy drink, fizz (UK), (fizzy) pop (Northern US, Canada, UK), soda pop (US), soft drink, coke (Southern US), tonic (Massachusetts) lemonade (Australia), ginger (Scotland), thirst-buster (colloquial)

• “soda”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.

• AOSD, DAOs, ados, daos, dosa, odas

• IPA^(key): [ˈsoda]

soda f

1. soda (sodium bicarbonate; usually baking soda)
2. soda (sodium carbonate; usually washing soda, caustic soda)
3. soda (carbonated water)

• soda in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• soda in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• soda in Internetová jazyková příručka

From Italian soda.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsoːda/

soda c (singular definite sodaen, not used in plural form)

1. soda (sodium carbonate)
2. soda water

   Synonym: sodavand

• “soda” in Den Danske Ordbog

Borrowed from English soda.

• IPA^(key): /so.da/

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soda m (plural sodas)

1. soda, soft drink

• “soda”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• ados, dosa, sado

Borrowed from Arabic سُوَيْدَاء (suwaydāʔ, “Suaeda”)—which has several variants in Arabic dialects only recorded later. Meanings of a beverage are semantic loan from English soda.

• seda

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɔ.da/
• Rhymes: -ɔda
• Hyphenation: sò‧da

soda f (plural sode)

1. (obsolete) parts of certain plants high in mineral salts the ashes in particular of which were used in glassmaking
2. soda, sodium carbonate

   Synonym: carbonato di sodio

3. soda water

   Synonym: seltz

soda f

1. feminine singular of sodo, meaning solid and firm, synonymous with solida

soda

1. third-person singular present indicative of sodare

• dosa

From Proto-Finnic *sota.

soda (genitive sovan, partitive sodua)

1. war

• voina

• ydinsoda

soda f (4th declension)

1. soda
2. natron

soda m

1. genitive singular of sods

soda

1. third-person singular/plural present indicative of sodīt
2. (with the particle lai) third-person singular imperative of sodīt
3. (with the particle lai) third-person plural imperative of sodīt

Belonging to the family of Lithuanian sodinti.

sodà f (plural sõdos) stress pattern 4

1. (dialectal or rare) village, settlement

   Synonyms: kaimas, sodžius

• “soda”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2024
• Fraenkel, Ernst (1955, 1962–1965) “sodà”, in Litauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume II, Heidelberg-Göttingen: Carl Winter and Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, page 854

sodà f (plural sòdos) stress pattern 2

1. (chiefly in the singular) soda (chemical compound containing sodium)

   kaustinė soda ― caustic soda, sodium hydroxide

   kalcinuota soda ― calcined soda, sodium carbonate

   kepimo soda, maistinė soda ― baking soda, [food-related] soda, sodium bicarbonate

• “soda”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2024

• (Courland) suodā

From Proto-Finnic *sota.

soda

1. (Salaca) war

From Italian sodo, possibly from Latin solidus (“solid”). The second sense is borrowed from English.

soda m (definite singular sodaen, indefinite plural sodaar or sodaer, definite plural sodaane or sodaene)

1. sodium carbonate
2. carbonated water, soft drink

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

soda n

1. definite plural of sod

• “soda” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Internationalism; compare German Soda, Italian soda, Spanish soda, ultimately from Medieval Latin soda, from Arabic سُوَيْدَاء (suwaydāʔ). Doublet of sód.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɔ.da/

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• Rhymes: -ɔda
• Syllabification: so‧da

soda f

1. (chemistry) soda, sodium carbonate, washing soda

   Synonym: węglan sodu

2. (baking, chemistry) baking soda, soda, sodium bicarbonate

   Synonym: soda oczyszczona

• soda in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• soda in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Spanish soda. Meanings of a beverage are semantic loan from English soda.

soda f (plural sodas)

1. (historical) parts of certain plants high in mineral salts the ashes in particular of which were used in glassmaking
2. soda (carbonated water)
3. soda (sweet, carbonated drink)

   Synonyms: refrigerante, refresco

• sódio

soda

1. inflection of sodar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

sóda f (Cyrillic spelling со́да)

1. soda (sodium carbonate)
2. soda (carbonated drink)

soda

1. inflection of sod:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative dual

16th-century borrowing from Italian soda. Doublet of sosa acquired earlier from Catalan. Meanings of a beverage are semantic loan from English soda.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsoda/ [ˈso.ð̞a]
• Rhymes: -oda
• Syllabification: so‧da

soda f (plural sodas)

1. (historical) parts of certain plants high in mineral salts the ashes in particular of which were used in glassmaking
2. soda (soft drink)

   Synonyms: gaseosa, refresco, (Chile) bebida

3. soda (sodium hydroxide)

   Synonym: sosa

4. (Costa Rica, Panama, rarely in United States) eatery; cheap, casual restaurant

   Synonym: comedor

• “soda”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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From English soda.

soda (n class, plural soda)

1. soda (carbonated water)
2. soda (sweet carbonated drink)

Borrowed from Arabic سَوْدَاء (sawdāʔ, “black bile”).

soda (n class, plural soda)

1. melancholy

From Italian soda.

• IPA^(key): /²suːda/

soda c

1. soda, sodium carbonate

• natriumkarbonat

• sodalut
• sodavatten

• soda in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• dosa, osad

From English solder.

soda

1. solder

From Proto-Finnic *sota.

soda

1. war