Soffi

See also: soffi

English

Noun

Soffi (archaic)

  1. Archaic spelling of Sophy[1] (title of a Safavid dynasty shah):
    • 1980, Savory, Roger, Iran under the Safavids, Cambridge [u.a.]: Cambridge University Press, published 2007, →ISBN, page 259:
      The Safavid shahs were commonly termed by Western writers "Sophie", "Sophy", "Sophi" or "Soffi". All these terms were probably corruptions of Ṣafī, the name of the founder of the Safavid Order, rather than of Ṣūfī, as the Safavid supporters called themselves.
    • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:Soffi.

References
  1. “Sophy, n.1”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

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