'Sofa' is Arabic for 'raised bench' — it went from an outdoor stone ledge to the throne of domestic comfort.
A long, upholstered seat with a back and arms, designed for two or more people to sit on comfortably.
From Arabic 'ṣuffa' (صُفَّة), meaning 'a bench of stone or wood' or 'a raised platform covered with carpets and cushions.' The word originally referred to the raised stone bench outside an Arab house, or the covered ledge along the front of a building where visitors could sit. It entered English through Turkish and then French 'sofa' or Italian 'sofà,' describing the low platform heaped