Sofi

SOFI sofi sófi soʻfi -sofi English Noun en sufien Sufi. en 1828 Frederic Shoberl Persia 95 The devout Mahometans charge the Sofis with atheism; while the latter not only deny the accusation, but pretend to hold intercourse with God: they assemble at night, and perform the exercises of turning round, jumping and shouting, till they drop down from weakness and exhaustion. en shahen Safavi. en 1902 w:John Bagnell Bury The Ottoman conquest Adolphus W. Ward; George W. Prothero; Stanley M. Leathes w:The Cambridge Modern History 1 New York [u.a.] Macmillan 572735443 88 https://books.google.com/books?id=yJftAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA88 He called himself a Safavi, from Safi, an ancestor illustrious for piety; and hence to contemporary Europe he was known as the Sofi. Further reading sofi, sophism sufi, sofi Sophy, n.1 184781 Anagrams en fios FiOS IFOs French Pronunciation Noun m en Sophy archaic form of en Safawi Further reading German Pronunciation de [ˈzoːfi] de So fi Noun f,s de colloquial de Sonnenfinsternis Declension f,s Further reading Spanish Pronunciation Proper noun f es female Sofía Sophie Swedish Pronunciation sv LL-Q9027 (swe)-Moonhouse-Sofi.wav Proper noun c sv female, short for Sofia or Sofie; also popular in the conjoined name Ann-Sofi or Ann-Sofie Anagrams sv fios iofs