soda

See also: Appendix:Variations of "soda"

English

Etymology

From Italian soda. Sense 4 is an ellipsis of soda water.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsəʊdə/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈsoʊdə/
Audio (US): (file)
Rhymes: -əʊdə

Noun

soda (countable and uncountable, plural sodas)

(uncountable) Sodium bicarbonate (usually baking soda).
(uncountable) Sodium carbonate (usually washing soda).
(uncountable) Sodium in chemical combination.
(uncountable) Carbonated water (water impregnated with pressurised carbon dioxide, originally made with sodium bicarbonate).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.’
(chiefly US, uncountable) Any carbonated (usually sweet) soft drink.
(chiefly US, countable) A glass, bottle or can of this drink.
(card games) The first card in the dealing box in the game of faro, which is discarded to leave 51 cards in play.

Synonyms

(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)

Derived terms

Translations

sodium carbonate

Afrikaans: natriumkarbonaat, wassoda
Arabic: صُودَا f (ṣōdā), كَرْبُونَات اَلصُّودْيُوم m (karbunāt aṣ-ṣodyum)
Armenian: սոդա (hy) (soda)
Azerbaijani:
Roman: soda

Abjad: صوده (sōda)
Belarusian: со́да f (sóda)
Bulgarian: со́да f (sóda)
Burmese: ဆိုဒါ (hcuida), ဆော်ဒါ (my) (hcauda)
Catalan: soda (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 蘇打／苏打 (zh) (sūdá), 碳酸鈉／碳酸钠 (zh) (tànsuānnà)
Dutch: natriumcarbonaat (nl)
Finnish: sooda (fi), natriumkarbonaatti
French: carbonate de soude (fr) m, soude (fr) f
Georgian: სოდა (soda)
German: Soda (de) f
Greek: ανθρακικό νάτριο (el) n (anthrakikó nátrio), σόδα πλύσης (el) f (sóda plýsis)
Hungarian: szóda (hu), nátrium-karbonát
Ido: sodo (io)
Italian: soda (it) f, carbonato di sodio (it) m
Japanese: ソーダ (ja) (sōda), 炭酸ナトリウム (たんさんナトリウム, tansan natoriumu)
Kashubian: zóda f
Korean: 소다 (soda), 탄산 나트륨 (tansan nateuryum)
Latin: nitrum (la) n
Persian: سود (fa) (sud)
Polish: soda (pl) f, węglan sodu m
Portuguese: soda cáustica f
Russian: со́да (ru) f (sóda), карбона́т на́трия m (karbonát nátrija)
Spanish: sosa (es) f, soda (es) f
Swahili: magadi (sw)
Tagalog: sosa
Thai: โซดา (th) (soo-daa)
Ukrainian: со́да f (sóda)
Yiddish: סאָדע f (sode)

sodium in chemical combination

Afrikaans: natriumkarbonaat
Finnish: natrium (fi)
Greek: διττανθρακικό νάτριο (el) n (dittanthrakikó nátrio), όξινο ανθρακικό νάτριο n (óxino anthrakikó nátrio), σόδα μαγειρικής (el) f (sóda mageirikís)
Maori: hōura

carbonated water

Afrikaans: sodawater
Azerbaijani: qazlı su
Bulgarian: газирана вода (gazirana voda)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 蘇打／苏打 (zh) (sūdá)
Czech: sodová voda f, sodovka (cs) f
Dutch: frisdrank (nl) m
Finnish: kivennäisvesi (fi), soodavesi (fi)
French: eau pétillante (fr) f
German: Sprudel (de) m, saurer Sprudel m, Soda (de) f, Sprudelwasser (de) n
Hebrew: סודה (he) f (sóda)
Hindi: सोडा पानी m (soḍā pānī), सोडावाटर (hi) m (soḍāvāṭar)
Hungarian: szóda (hu), szódavíz (hu)
Ido: sod-aquo (io)
Italian: soda (it) f, seltz m
Japanese: ソーダ水 (ja) (sōda-sui)
Marathi: सोडा m (soḍā)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: kullsyreholdig mineralvann n, sodavann n, soda n, selters m

Nynorsk: kolsyrehaldig mineralvatn n, sodavatn n, soda m, selters m
Persian: سودا (fa) (sodâ)
Polish: sodówka (pl) f, woda gazowana (pl) f, woda sodowa (pl) f
Portuguese: soda (pt) f
Russian: со́довая вода́ (ru) f (sódovaja vodá), газиро́вка (ru) f (gaziróvka)
Spanish: soda (es) f
Swahili: soda (sw)
Swedish: kolsyrat vatten n; sodavatten (sv) n
Thai: โซดา (th) (so-da)
Ukrainian: газована вода (hazovana voda)
Welsh: soda (cy) m
Yiddish: זעלצערוואַסער n (zeltservaser)

sweet, carbonated drink

Afrikaans: koeldrank
Arabic: مَشْرُوب غَازِيّ m (mašrūb ḡāziyy)
Tunisian Arabic: ڨازوز (gazuz)
Armenian: սոդա (hy) (soda)
Azerbaijani: qazlı sok
Basque: gaseosa (eu)
Bulgarian: газирано питие (gazirano pitie)
Burmese: အချိုရည် (a.hkyuirany), ဆိုဒါ (hcuida), ဆော်ဒါ (my) (hcauda)
Catalan: gasosa (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 汽水 (zh) (qìshuǐ)
Dutch: frisdrank (nl), prik (nl), limonade (nl), priklimonade (nl)
Esperanto: sodakvo, sodo
Finnish: limonadi (fi), virvoitusjuoma (fi)
French: boisson gazeuse f, soda (fr) m, liqueur (fr) f (Canada)
Galician: gasosa (gl) f
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: Limonade (de) f, Brause (de) f, süßer Sprudel m
Hebrew: גזוז (he) m (gazóz)
Hindi: सोडा (hi) m (soḍā)
Hungarian: üdítő (hu), szénsavas üdítőital
Icelandic: gos (is) n, gosdrykkur m
Italian: bibita (it) f, bevanda gassata f
Japanese: 炭酸飲料 (ja) (たんさんいんりょう, tansan inryō)
Khmer: សូដា (km) (soudaa)
Korean: 사이다 (ko) (saida)
Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
Nahuatl: tzopelātl
Navajo: tó dilchxoshí, tó łichxíʼí
Nepali: सोडा (soḍā)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: brus (no) m

Nynorsk: brus (nn) m
Persian: نوشابه (fa) (nušâbe)
Polish: napój gazowany (pl) m
Portuguese: refrigerante (pt) m, refri (pt) m, refresco (pt) m, soda (pt) f
Romanian: băutură răcoritoare f, răcoritoare (ro) f, băutură carbogazoasă f, suc (ro) n
Russian: газиро́вка (ru) f (gaziróvka)
Sotho: senomaphodi
Spanish: gaseosa (es) f, bebida (es) f, soda (es) f (Chile), refresco (es) m (Bolivia, Cuba, Honduras, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Spain, Venezuela), (Eastern Bolivia, Northern Mexico, Panama, Puerto Rico) soda (es) f, agua (es) f (Guatemala, colloquial - short for agua gaseosa), (Spain, colloquial) casera (es) f, (Mexico, colloquial) chesco m, (Ecuador, colloquial) cola (es) f, (Venezuela, colloquial - regional and working class usage) fresco (es) m
Swahili: soda (sw)
Swedish: läsk (sv), dricka (sv) c, lemonad (sv), läskedryck (sv) c
Tagalog: please add this translation if you can
Thai: น้ำอัดลม (th) (náam-àt-lom)
Tibetan: ཆུ་མངར་མོ (chu mngar mo)
Tok Pisin: loliwara
Turkish: gazlı içecek, gazoz (tr)
Ukrainian: солодка вода (solodka voda)
Vietnamese: nước ngọt (vi)
Welsh: diod swigod f
White Hmong: pev xij
Yiddish: סאָדע f (sode)

glass of this drink

Finnish: lasi limonadia, lasi virvoitusjuomaa

Anagrams

AOSD, ados, DAOs, daos, odas, ADOS, dosa, sado-

Czech

Czech Wikipedia has an article on:

soda

Wikipedia ^cs

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈsoda]

Noun

soda f

soda (sodium bicarbonate; usually baking soda)
soda (sodium carbonate; usually washing soda, caustic soda)
soda (carbonated water)

Declension

Declension of soda (hard feminine)

	singular	plural
nominative	soda	sody
genitive	sody	sod
dative	sodě	sodám
accusative	sodu	sody
vocative	sodo	sody
locative	sodě	sodách
instrumental	sodou	sodami

Danish

Etymology

From Italian soda.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈsoːda/

Noun

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

soda (sodium carbonate)
soda water
Synonym: sodavand

Declension

Declension of soda

common gender	Singular
common gender	indefinite	definite
nominative	soda	sodaen
genitive	sodas	sodaens

References

“soda” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English soda.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /so.da/
Audio (Paris): (file)
Audio: (file)

Noun

soda m (plural sodas)

soda, soft drink

Derived terms

Anagrams

ados, dosa, sado

Italian

Etymology 1

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.

Alternative forms

seda

Pronunciation

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

Noun

soda f (plural sode)

(obsolete) parts of certain plants high in mineral salts the ashes in particular of which were used in glassmaking
soda, sodium carbonate
Synonym: carbonato di sodio
soda water
Synonym: seltz

Etymology 2

Adjective

soda f

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

Verb

soda

third-person singular present indicative of sodare

Anagrams

dosa

Karelian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *sota.

Noun

soda (genitive sovan, partitive sodua)

war

Synonyms

voina

Derived terms

ydinsoda

Latvian

Noun

soda f (4th declension)

soda
natron

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Declension

Declension of soda (4th declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	soda	—
accusative (akuzatīvs)	sodu	—
genitive (ģenitīvs)	sodas	—
dative (datīvs)	sodai	—
instrumental (instrumentālis)	sodu	—
locative (lokatīvs)	sodā	—
vocative (vokatīvs)	soda	—

Noun

soda m

genitive singular of sods

Verb

soda

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

Lithuanian

Etymology 1

Belonging to the family of Lithuanian sodinti.

Noun

sodà f (plural sõdos) stress pattern 4

(dialectal or rare) village, settlement
Synonyms: kaimas, sodžius

Declension

Declension of sodà

	singular (vienaskaita)	plural (daugiskaita)
nominative (vardininkas)	sodà	sõdos
genitive (kilmininkas)	sodõs	sodų̃
dative (naudininkas)	sõdai	sodóms
accusative (galininkas)	sõdą	sodàs
instrumental (įnagininkas)	sodà	sodomìs
locative (vietininkas)	sodojè	sodosè
vocative (šauksmininkas)	sõda	sõdos

References

“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

Etymology 2

soda on Lithuanian Wikipedia

Noun

sodà f (plural sòdos) stress pattern 2

(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

Declension

Declension of sodà

	singular (vienaskaita)	plural (daugiskaita)
nominative (vardininkas)	sodà	sòdos
genitive (kilmininkas)	sòdos	sòdų
dative (naudininkas)	sòdai	sòdoms
accusative (galininkas)	sòdą	sodàs
instrumental (įnagininkas)	sodà	sòdomis
locative (vietininkas)	sòdoje	sòdose
vocative (šauksmininkas)	sòda	sòdos

References

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

Livonian

Alternative forms

(Courland) suodā

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *sota.

Noun

soda

(Salaca) war

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

soda n

definite plural of sod

References

“soda” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

soda

Wikipedia ^pl

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈsɔ.da/
Audio: (file)
Rhymes: -ɔda
Syllabification: so‧da

Noun

soda f

(chemistry) soda, sodium carbonate, washing soda
Synonym: węglan sodu
(baking, chemistry) baking soda, soda, sodium bicarbonate
Synonym: soda oczyszczona

Declension

Declension of soda

	singular	plural
nominative	soda	sody
genitive	sody	sód
dative	sodzie	sodom
accusative	sodę	sody
instrumental	sodą	sodami
locative	sodzie	sodach
vocative	sodo	sody

Derived terms

noun

soda oczyszczona

Related terms

adjectives

nouns

Portuguese

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsɔ.dɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsɔ.da/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈsɔ.dɐ/ [ˈsɔ.ðɐ]

Etymology 1

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

Noun

soda f (plural sodas)

(historical) parts of certain plants high in mineral salts the ashes in particular of which were used in glassmaking
soda (carbonated water)
soda (sweet, carbonated drink)
Synonyms: refrigerante, refresco

Related terms

sódio

Etymology 2

Verb

soda

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

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sǒːda/

Noun

sóda f (Cyrillic spelling со́да)

soda (sodium carbonate)
soda (carbonated drink)

Declension

Declension of soda

	singular	plural
nominative	soda	sode
genitive	sode	soda
dative	sodi	sodama
accusative	sodu	sode
vocative	sodo	sode
locative	sodi	sodama
instrumental	sodom	sodama

Slovene

Noun

soda

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

Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

soda f (plural sodas)

(historical) parts of certain plants high in mineral salts the ashes in particular of which were used in glassmaking
soda (soft drink)
Synonyms: gaseosa, refresco, (Chile) bebida
soda (sodium hydroxide)
Synonym: sosa
(Costa Rica, Panama, rarely in United States) eatery; cheap, casual restaurant
Synonym: comedor

Derived terms

sodero

Swahili

Pronunciation

Audio (Kenya): (file)

Etymology 1

From English soda.

Noun

soda (n class, plural soda)

soda (carbonated water)
soda (sweet carbonated drink)

Etymology 2

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

Noun

soda (n class, plural soda)

melancholy

Swedish

Etymology

From Italian soda.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /²suːda/

Noun

soda c

soda, sodium carbonate

Declension

Declension of soda

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	soda	sodas
singular	definite	sodan	sodans
plural	indefinite	—	—
plural	definite	—	—

Synonyms

natriumkarbonat

Related terms

References

soda in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

dosa, osad

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English solder.

Noun

soda

solder

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *sota.

Noun

soda

war

Inflection

Inflection of soda (inflection type 5/sana)
nominative sing.	soda
genitive sing.	sodan
partitive sing.	sodad
partitive plur.	sodoid
	singular	plural
nominative	soda	sodad
accusative	sodan	sodad
genitive	sodan	sodoiden
partitive	sodad	sodoid
essive-instructive	sodan	sodoin
translative	sodaks	sodoikš

inessive	sodas	sodoiš
elative	sodaspäi	sodoišpäi
illative	sodaha	sodoihe

adessive	sodal	sodoil
ablative	sodalpäi	sodoilpäi
allative	sodale	sodoile

abessive	sodata	sodoita
comitative	sodanke	sodoidenke
prolative	sodadme	sodoidme

approximative I	sodanno	sodoidenno
approximative II	sodannoks	sodoidennoks
egressive	sodannopäi	sodoidennopäi

terminative I	sodahasai	sodoihesai
terminative II	sodalesai	sodoilesai
terminative III	sodassai	—

additive I	sodahapäi	sodoihepäi
additive II	sodalepäi	sodoilepäi

soda

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Danish

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French

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Italian

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Adjective

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Karelian

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Noun

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Latvian

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Noun

Verb

Lithuanian

Etymology 1

Noun

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Etymology 2

Noun

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Livonian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Noun

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Noun

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Noun

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Polish

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Noun

Declension

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

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