sorva

sorva

1. Either of the tropical plants Couma macrocarpa and Couma utilis.

• 'sarvo, VAROs, Voras, arvos, sarvo, savor

Borrowed from dialectal Swedish svarv (compare standard Swedish sarv).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsorʋɑ/, [ˈs̠o̞rʋɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -orʋɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): sor‧va

sorva

1. rudd (Scardinius erythrophthalmus)

• “sorva”, 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 2023-07-03

• varso

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Vulgar Latin *sorba, with a change in gender from the plural of Latin sorbum, reinterpreted as a feminine singular. Compare Galician sorba, Spanish serba.

sorva f (plural sorvas)

1. serviceberry, sorb
2. service tree (Sorbus domestica, a deciduous tree or shrub of Eurasia)

   Synonym: sorveira

3. cow tree (Couma macrocarpa)

sorva

1. inflection of sorver:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative