safo

• Homophone: Safo
• Rhymes: -afu
• Hyphenation: sa‧fo

Deverbal from safar.

safo (feminine safa, masculine plural safos, feminine plural safas)

1. (of a person) safe

   Synonyms: seguro, são, salvo

2. (of an object) wore out

   Synonyms: gasto, desgastado

3. (Brazil, slang, of a person) clever, witty

   Synonyms: esperto, sagaz

4. free, having escaped

   Synonyms: livre, desimpedido, desprendido

5. (nautical, of a vessel) freed from stranding

safo m (plural safos)

1. (slang) handkerchief

   Synonym: lenço

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

safo

1. first-person singular present indicative of safar

• “safo”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “safo”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

Cognate with Sahu sawo'o, Tobelo hawoko.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsa.fo/

safo (Jawi سافو)

1. a bowl, cup

• Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill
• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Cognate with Ternate sahu (“warm”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈs̪a.ɸo/

safo

1. (stative) to be warm
2. (stative) to have a fever
3. (stative) to ache, pain, hurt

   ti bodo isafo ― my stomach aches

4. (stative) to be painful (due to a blow, etc.)

• James Collins (1982) Further Notes Towards a West Makian Vocabulary‎^[1], Pacific linguistics
• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[2], Pacific linguistics