Sofi

Sofi (plural Sofis)

1. Archaic spelling of Sufi.
   • 1828, Frederic Shoberl, Persia (page 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.

2. Archaic spelling of Sophy: title of a Safavid dynasty shah
   • 1902, Bury, John Bagnell, “The Ottoman conquest”, in Adolphus W. Ward, George W. Prothero, Stanley M. Leathes, editors, The Cambridge Modern History, volume 1, New York [u.a.]: Macmillan, OCLC 572735443, page 88:

     He called himself a Safavi, from Safi, an ancestor illustrious for piety; and hence to contemporary Europe he was known as the Sofi.

• sofi, sophism in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• sufi, sofi in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• “Sophy, n.1”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

• FiOS, IFOs

• IPA^(key): /sɔfi/

Sofi m (plural Sofis)

1. Sophy (“title of a Safavid dynasty shah”).

• “Sofi” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• IPA^(key): [ˈzoːfi]
• Hyphenation: So‧fi

Sofi f (genitive Sofi, plural Sofis)

1. (colloquial) Clipping of Sonnenfinsternis.

• Sofi in Duden online

Sofi c (genitive Sofis)

1. A female given name, short for Sofia or Sofie; also popular in the conjoined name Ann-Sofi or Ann-Sofie.