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Soffi
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soffi
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Noun
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en shahen Safavi.
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.
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Sophy, n.1 184781
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