Sufi

See also: sufi

English

Alternative forms

• Sofee (archaic), Sofi (archaic), Suphy (archaic)

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish صوفی (sufi), from Arabic صُوفِيّ (ṣūfiyy, “man of wool”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -uːfi

Noun

Sufi (plural Sufis)

1. 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.

Derived terms

• Sufism
• Sufist
• Sufite

Translations

a Sufi muslim

• Arabic: صُوفِيّ (ṣūfiyy)
• Bengali: সুফী (bn) (sufī)
• Catalan: sufí m
• Czech: súfijec m
• Finnish: suufilainen (fi)
• Hindi: सूफ़ी m (sūfī), सूफी (hi) m (sūphī), सोफी (hi) m (sophī), सौफी (hi) m (sauphī)
• Italian: sufi (it)
• Kazakh: сопы (sopy)
• Kumyk: супу (supu)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: sofî (ku)

• Marathi: सुफी (suphī)
• Pashto: صوفي (ps) m (sofí)
• Persian: صوفی (fa) (sufi), درویش (fa) (darviš)
• Russian: су́фий (ru) m (súfij)
• Spanish: sufí (es) m
• Swahili: sufii
• Turkish: mutasavvıf (tr), sufi (tr)
• Urdu: صوفی m (sūfī)

See also

• dervish

Anagrams

• FIUs, USFI, sifu