Soffi
See also: soffi
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]Soffi (archaic)
- Archaic form of Safavi.[1]
- 1980, Roger Savory, Iran under the Safavids, Cambridge [u.a.]: Cambridge University Press, published 2007, →ISBN, page 259:
- 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.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Soffi.
References
[edit]- ^ “Sophy, n.1”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
