sota

Inherited from Old Catalan sota, from Vulgar Latin *subta, alteration of Latin subtus (whence Old Catalan sots), derived from sub, from Proto-Italic *supo, from Proto-Indo-European *upo.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈso.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈso.ta]

sota

1. under, underneath, below, beneath

sota

1. below, beneath, underneath

sota

1. (card games) jack, knave

• dessota
• ensota
• sotana

• “sota”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “sota”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “sota” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “sota” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Proto-Finnic *sota (compare Estonian sõda, Livonian soda, Veps soda, Võro sõda), from Proto-Uralic *śoďa (compare Erzya сюдома (śudoma, “to curse”), Eastern Mari шудалаш (šudalaš, “to curse”), Tundra Nenets сайнорць (saynorcʹ°, “to be at war”)).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsotɑ/, [ˈs̠o̞t̪ɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -otɑ
• Syllabification^(key): so‧ta
• Hyphenation^(key): so‧ta

sota

1. war (conflict involving organized use of arms; also figuratively, e.g. of a campaign against something or business competition)

   olemme sodassa ― we are at war

2. warfare (waging of war or armed conflict)

   Synonym: sodankäynti

   asemasota ― trench warfare

3. (in compounds) military, war-

   Synonym: sotilas-

• “sota”, 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 17 November 2023

• Atso, osat, osta, otsa, sato, stoa, taos, taso, tosa

From Proto-Finnic *sota. Cognates include Finnish sota and Estonian sõda.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈsotɑ/, [ˈs̠o̞tɑ]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈsotɑ/, [ˈʃo̞d̥ɑ]
• Rhymes: -otɑ
• Hyphenation: so‧ta

sota

1. war
   • 2021, Kati Kallio, Riho Grünthal, Lasi Saressalo, quoting Olga Filatova, Inkerikot, setot ja vatjalaiset (overall work in Finnish), →ISBN, page 40:

     Ennee sottaa mittää sitä vennään keeltä meil ei olt - kaik oli oman keeli!

     Before the war we didn't have any Russian language - everything was our own language!

• sota often refers specifically to World War II.

• sopu (“peace”)

• V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎^[2], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 19
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 535

sota

1. alternative form of sot

• soten, sotet

sota m or f or n

1. definite feminine singular of sot

• sotet

sota f or n

1. definite feminine singular of sot

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Vulgar Latin *subta, from Latin subtus (cf. also Old Catalan sots), from sub, from Proto-Italic *supo, from Proto-Indo-European *upo. Cognate with Catalan sota, French sous, Italian sotto, Sicilian sutta.

• (Provençal) IPA^(key): /ˈsuto/

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sota

1. (Provençal) beneath, under

   Me soi assetat sota l'arbre.

Deverbal from sotiti (“to pound, to shove”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): (13^th CE) /ˈsota/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ˈsota/

sota f (diminutive sotka)

1. wound

• Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “sota”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

Inherited from Sanskrit श्रोत्र (śrotra).

sota n

1. ear

Inherited from Sanskrit स्रोतस् (srotas), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sráwtas, from Proto-Indo-European *srew- (“to flow”).

sota n

1. stream
2. current
3. flood

• Pali Text Society (1921–1925) “sota”, in Pali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead

• IPA^(key): /ˈsota/ [ˈso.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -ota
• Syllabification: so‧ta

Borrowed from Catalan sota,^[1] from Vulgar Latin *subta, from Latin subtus (“below”), which is derived from Latin sub. Cognate to French sous and Italian sotto.

sota f (plural sotas)

1. (card games) jack, knave
2. insolent woman
3. (archaic) hussy; harlot

sota

1. (obsolete) beneath, under

   Synonym: bajo

sota

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

• “sota”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

sot (“soot”) +‎ -a

sota (present sotar, preterite sotade, supine sotat, imperative sota)

1. to sweep (clean soot (from))

   Sotaren sotade skorstenen

   The chimney sweep swept the chimney

2. (usually with ner (“down”)) to dirty with soot

   Röken från fabriken sotade ner husväggarna

   The smoke from the factory covered the walls of the houses in soot ("sooted down the house walls")

3. to soot ((deliberately) blacken (something) with soot)

   sotade ögon

   smoky ("sooted") eyes

4. to emit unwanted soot

   Fotogenlampan sotar

   The kerosene lamp is sooting

5. (idiomatic, with för) to face the unpleasant consequences of (something)

   Det här ska du få sota för!

   You will pay for this!

   (literally, “You will get to soot for this!”)

• sota in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• sota in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• sota in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Borrowed from Spanish sota.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈsota/ [ˈsoː.t̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -ota
• Syllabification: so‧ta

sota (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜓᜆ)

1. (card games) jack; knave
2. stable boy

• “sota”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

• Sato, taos

Borrowed from Italian sotto (“under, beneath, underneath”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈso.ta/
• Hyphenation: so‧ta

sota

1. (slang) A convenient place, especially for a sinister scheme.

2=d

• “sota”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sota”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4304