sef

Abbreviation of English Senoufo.

sef

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Cebaara Senoufo.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Cebaara Senoufo terms

From English self.

• IPA^(key): /sef/

sef

1. self
2. ego

• -sef, 'sef

sef (affix pronoun)

1. (post-positional) forms reflexive pronouns from non-reflexive pronouns

   example: me-sef

• Virginia Mixson Geraty, Gulluh fuh oonuh: Gullah for You (1997)
• Lorenzo Dow Turner, Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect (1969)
•  David B. Frank. Gullah Grammar Sketch

• 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. According to Pokorny, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *seyb- (“to pour, leak, trickle”).^[2]

sef n (genitive singular sefs, no plural)

1. rush (plant of the genus Juncus)

Inflected form of sofa (“to sleep”).

sef

1. first-person singular present indicative of sofa

From or related to Proto-Germanic *sipōną (“to trickle, drip, fall”), referring to the sap of the leaves or the moistness of places that they grow in.

sef n (genitive sefs)

1. sedge, rush

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

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “sef”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive
• Pokorny, Julius (1959), “894”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 894

sef n (plural sefuri)

1. alternative form of seif

Borrowed from English safe.

• IPA^(key): /sêf/

sȅf m inan (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 (in Slovene), 2014–2025

Cognate with Persian سیب (sib).

sef

1. apple

• ysef

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

• IPA^(key): /seːv/

sef

1. that is to say, that is, namely

   Synonym: hynny yw

• D. G. Lewis, N. Lewis, editors (2005–present), “sef”, in Gweiadur: the Welsh–English Dictionary, Gwerin
• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “sef”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies