# sef
## Translingual
### Symbol

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

### See also

* Wiktionary's coverage of Cebaara Senoufo terms

## Hausa
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sêf/
** (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA: [sêɸ]

### Noun

sêf m
* safe (for money or valuables)

## Icelandic
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sɛːv/
* Rhymes: -ɛːv

### Etymology 1

From Old Norse sef, possibly borrowed from Old Irish simin, sibin(n), from Proto-Indo-European *sem-ino?. 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”).

#### Noun

sef n (genitive singular sefs, no plural)
* rush (plant of the genus Juncus)

##### Derived terms

* blómsef (“three-flowered rush, Juncus triglumis”)
* dökkasef (“chestnut rush, Juncus castaneus”)
* fitjasef (“black-grass rush, Juncus gerardii”)
* flagasef (“two-flowered rush, Juncus biglumis”)
* laugasef (“jointleaf rush, Juncus articulatus”)
* lækjasef (“toad rush, Juncus bufonius”)
* móasef (“highland rush, Juncus trifolia”)
* mýrasef (“northern green rush, Juncus alpinoarticulatus”)
* þráðsef (“thread rush, Juncus filiformis”)

### Etymology 2

Inflected form of sofa (“to sleep”).

#### Verb

sef
* first-person singular present indicative of sofa

### References

* ↑ Guus Kroonen (2013) “semetha”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 432-33
* ↑ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “894”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 894

## Old Norse
### Etymology

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.

### Noun

sef n (genitive sefs)
* sedge, rush

#### Descendants

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

### Further reading

* 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

## Romanian
### Noun

sef n (plural sefuri)
* Alternative form of seif

#### Declension
## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

From English safe.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sêf/

### Noun

sȅf m (Cyrillic spelling се̏ф)
* safe, strongbox

#### Declension
## Slovene
### Etymology

From English safe.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /séːf/

### Noun

sẹ̑f m inan
* safe (a box, usually made of metal, in which valuables can be locked for safekeeping)

#### Inflection
### Further reading

* “sef”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

## Talysh
### Etymology

Cognate with Persian سیب (sib).

### Noun

sef
* apple

## Welsh
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /seːv/

### Adverb

sef
* that is to say, that is, namely