# soda
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈsəʊdə/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (US) IPA: /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* (uncountable) Carbonated water (water impregnated with pressurised carbon dioxide, originally made with sodium bicarbonate).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

* baking soda
* bicarbonate of soda
* bicarb soda
* bread soda
* caustic soda
* champagne soda
* club soda
* cooking soda
* creaming soda
* cream soda
* dirty soda
* doodh soda
* from soda to hock
* hydrosulfite of soda, hydrosulphite of soda
* hyposulfite of soda
* hyposulphite of soda
* ice-cream soda
* ice cream soda
* icecream soda
* lemon soda
* muriate of soda
* nitrate of soda
* oat soda
* sal soda
* salt of soda
* soda acid
* soda-acid
* soda alum
* soda ash
* soda biscuit
* soda bread
* soda cellulose
* soda counter
* soda cracker
* soda fount
* soda fountain
* soda fountain chair
* soda glass
* sodaic
* soda jerk
* soda jerker
* soda lake
* soda-lime
* soda-lime glass
* sodalite
* soda lye
* soda machine
* sodamide
* soda niter, soda nitre
* soda paper
* soda pop
* soda prairie
* soda process
* soda pulp
* soda siphon
* Soda Springs
* soda straw
* soda syphon
* soda trachyte
* soda waste
* soda water
* sodium
* sulfate of soda, sulphate of soda
* sulfite of soda, sulphite of soda
* washing-soda
* washing soda
* white soda

#### Translations
### Further reading

* “soda”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.

### Anagrams

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

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈsoda]

### Noun

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

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “soda”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “soda”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
* “soda”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

## Danish
### Etymology

From Italian soda.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsoːda/

### Noun

soda c (singular definite sodaen, not used in plural form)
* soda (sodium carbonate)
* soda water
    Synonym: sodavand

#### Declension
### References

* “soda” in Den Danske Ordbog

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from English soda.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /so.da/
* Audio (Paris):(file)
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

soda m (plural sodas)
* soda, soft drink

#### Derived terms

* cuillère à soda
* soda à pâte
* soda club
* soda mousse
* soda tonique

### Further reading

* “soda”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### 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: /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
### 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
#### References

* “soda”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2025
* Fraenkel, Ernst (1955, 1962–1965) “sodà”, in Litauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume II, Heidelberg-Göttingen: Carl Winter and Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, page 854

### Etymology 2
#### 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
#### References

* “soda”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2025

## 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)
* sodium carbonate
* carbonated water, soft drink

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

soda n
* definite plural of sod

### References

* “soda” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Polish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /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

#### Derived terms

* soda oczyszczona

#### Related terms

* sodowany
* sodowy
* sodowiarka
* sodowiarnia
* sodowiarz
* sodówa
* sodówka
* sód

### Further reading

* soda in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* soda in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈsɔ.dɐ/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈsɔ.dɐ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈsɔ.da/
* (Portugal) IPA: /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:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Serbo-Croatian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sǒːda/

### Noun

sóda f (Cyrillic spelling со́да)
* soda (sodium carbonate)
* soda (carbonated drink)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “soda”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

## Slovene
### Noun

soda
* inflection of sod:
** genitive singular
** 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: /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

### Further reading

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

## Swahili
### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Etymology 1

From English soda.

#### Noun

soda class IX (plural soda class X)
* soda (carbonated water)
* soda (sweet carbonated drink)

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

soda class IX (plural soda class X)
* melancholy

## Swedish
### Etymology

From Italian soda.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /²suːda/

### Noun

soda c
* soda, sodium carbonate

#### Synonyms

* natriumkarbonat

#### Related terms

* sodalut
* sodavatten

### 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