sorva
English
Noun
sorva
- Either of the tropical plants Couma macrocarpa and Couma utilis.
Anagrams
Finnish
Etymology
Borrowed from dialectal Swedish svarv (compare standard Swedish sarv).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsorʋɑ/, [ˈs̠o̞rʋɑ̝]
- Rhymes: -orʋɑ
- Syllabification(key): sor‧va
- Hyphenation(key): sor‧va
Noun
sorva
Declension
| Inflection of sorva (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation) | |||
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| nominative | sorva | sorvat | |
| genitive | sorvan | sorvien | |
| partitive | sorvaa | sorvia | |
| illative | sorvaan | sorviin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | sorva | sorvat | |
| accusative | nom. | sorva | sorvat |
| gen. | sorvan | ||
| genitive | sorvan | sorvien sorvain rare | |
| partitive | sorvaa | sorvia | |
| inessive | sorvassa | sorvissa | |
| elative | sorvasta | sorvista | |
| illative | sorvaan | sorviin | |
| adessive | sorvalla | sorvilla | |
| ablative | sorvalta | sorvilta | |
| allative | sorvalle | sorville | |
| essive | sorvana | sorvina | |
| translative | sorvaksi | sorviksi | |
| abessive | sorvatta | sorvitta | |
| instructive | — | sorvin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
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Derived terms
compounds
Further reading
- “sorva”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023
Anagrams
Portuguese
Etymology 1
From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Vulgar Latin *sorba, with a change in gender from the plural of Latin sorbum, reinterpreted as a feminine singular. Compare Galician sorba, Spanish serba.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈsoʁ.vɐ/ [ˈsoɦ.vɐ]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /ˈsoɾ.vɐ/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ˈsoʁ.vɐ/
- (Caipira) IPA(key): /ˈsoɻ.vɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈsoʁ.va/ [ˈsoɦ.va]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈsoɾ.vɐ/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈsoɾ.bɐ/ [ˈsoɾ.βɐ]
Noun
sorva f (plural sorvas)
- serviceberry, sorb
- service tree (Sorbus domestica, a deciduous tree or shrub of Eurasia)
- Synonym: sorveira
- cow tree (Couma macrocarpa)
Etymology 2
Verb
sorva
- inflection of sorver:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “sorva”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “sorva”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026