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Sufi en · ADJ

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Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish صوفی (sufi), from Arabic صُوفِيّ (ṣūfiyy, “man of wool”).

Meanings

1. Of or pertaining to Sufism or Sufis.

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Deriveds

Sufize · Sufic · Sufist · Sufism · Sufite

Relateds

dervish

Translations (26)

fi suufilainen (a Sufi muslim) · kum супу (a Sufi muslim) · gu સૂફી (a Sufi muslim) · kmr sofî (a Sufi muslim) · sw sufii (a Sufi muslim) · es sufí (a Sufi muslim) · bn সুফী (a Sufi muslim) · ca sufí (a Sufi muslim) · ru су́фий (a Sufi muslim) · fa درویش (a Sufi muslim) · ps صوفي (a Sufi muslim) · mr सुफी (a Sufi muslim) · cs súfijec (a Sufi muslim) · uz sufiy (a Sufi muslim) · hi सौफी (a Sufi muslim) · tr sufi (a Sufi muslim) · ur صوفی (a Sufi muslim) · it sufi (a Sufi muslim) · ar صُوفِيّ (a Sufi muslim) · hi सूफी (a Sufi muslim) · kk сопы (a Sufi muslim) · hi सोफी (a Sufi muslim) · tk sopy (a Sufi muslim) · fa صوفی (a Sufi muslim) · hi सूफ़ी (a Sufi muslim) · tr mutasavvıf (a Sufi muslim)

Sufi en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish صوفی (sufi), from Arabic صُوفِيّ (ṣūfiyy, “man of wool”).

Meanings

1. A mystic Muslim; a Muslim ascetic; a practitioner of Sufism.
   • Some admired the external beauties of the objects they beheld, like the nightingale in love with the roſe; ſome inchanted by the concert around, like Suphys delighting in madneſs, toſſed the cup of exultation into the ſkies[.] [Footnote] Suphys are a sect of mad philoſophers. 1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page v:

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