Sufi
See also: sufi
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Etymology edit
From Ottoman Turkish صوفی (sufi), from Arabic صُوفِيّ (ṣūfiyy, “man of wool”).
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- Rhymes: -uːfi
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Sufi (plural Sufis)
- A mystic Muslim; a Muslim ascetic; a practitioner of Sufism.
- 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:
- 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.
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a Sufi muslim
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