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Sophie
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sophie
English
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
en /ˈsəʊfi/
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Sophie.wav Southern England
en əʊfi 2
Proper noun
en female fr:Sophie Sophia of Ancient Greek origin. en female given names from Ancient Greek
1832 Barry Cornwall, English Songs, 1851, LXXXV ("To Sophie"):
Wilt thou be a nun, Sophie? / Nothing but a nun? / Is it not a better thing / With thy friends to laugh and sing?
en 1991 w:Julian Barnes Talking It Over 241, 252 0-224-03157-0 No, like a small child, my daughter, Sophie Anne Louise. We gave her three names, all of which exist in English as well as in French, so she can change her name just by changing her accent. - - -Sophie Anne Louise. It is a bit pretentious, do you not find? Maybe it is better in English. Sophie Anne Louise. No, it still sounds like one of Queen Victoria's grandchildren.
en female Sophia.
en 1995 Marilyn Seguin The Bell Keeper: The story of Sophia and the Massacre of the Indians at Gnadenhutten, Ohio, in 1782 http://books.google.com/books?id=Ztax4WEsnT4C&pg=PT9&dq=sophie+sophia+-intitle:%22%22&hl=en&ei=NNSbTsKqHoOpiAfgz_WUBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CEQQ6AEwBjgU#v=onepage&q=sophie%20sophia%20-intitle%3A%22%22&f=false 8 Sophia landed on her behind on the soft moss that lined the river bank. "Besides, you don't win yet, Sophie," he said. "I have one more stone still."
en village department/Ouest c/Haiti.
Derived terms
en Sophie's choice
Related terms
en Sophie Germain prime from the French name
Etymology 2
See en Sophy shah.
Noun
en shah en Safavi.
II i 167 1–2 The Prince of Morocco:By this Symitare,That ſlew the Sophie, and a Perſian Prince
en 1980 2007 w:Roger Savory Iran under the Safavids Cambridge [u.a.] Cambridge University Press 9780521224833 259 https://books.google.com/books?id=v4Yr4foWFFgC&pg=PA259 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.
en
References
Sophy, n.1 184781
Cebuano
Etymology
From the ceb en Sophie, the pet form of en Sophia or from ceb fr Sophie. From ceb grc σοφία wisdom.
Proper noun
ceb noun
ceb female English < French < Ancient Greek
Danish
Proper noun
da proper noun
da female Sofie
French
Pronunciation
fr LL-Q150 (fra)-Benoît Prieur-Sophie.wav <<France>> (<<Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost>>)
Proper noun
f
fr female Sophia
fr archaic fr capital city c/Bulgaria Sofia
fr Sofia
1845, Jérôme-Adolphe Blanqui, Voyage en Bulgarie 1841, chapitre IX
fr On franchit une marche de Nissa à Mustapha-Pacha-Palanka, puis une autre de Palanka à Scharkoë et une troisième de Scharkoë à Sophie, en traversant le long plateau de Tzaribrod.
Descendants
en Sophie 1
da Sofie Sophie 1
de Sofie Sophie 1
no Sofie Sophie 1
nrf Sophie
sv Sofie Sophie 1
fr Gnosticism
German
Pronunciation
de /zoˈfiː/
de De-Sophie.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
de /ˈzɔfi/ chiefly pet form of the above or of de Sophia
Proper noun
f.gen:s:-[with an article]
de female Sophia
Alternative forms
de Sofie less common spelling
de Sophi Soffi pet form, rarely official
Norman
Proper noun
nrf proper noun f
nrf female Sophia
Swedish
Pronunciation
sv LL-Q9027 (swe)-Moonhouse-Sophie.wav
Proper noun
c
sv female, a less common spelling of Sofie
Tagalog
Etymology
tl en Sophie, pet form of en Sophia, from tl grc σοφία wisdom.
Pronunciation
Sowfi So.phie
Proper noun
sowfi
tl female English < Ancient Greek