"Sufi" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: Sufis [plural], Sofee [alternative], Sofi [alternative], Suphy [alternative]
Rhymes: -uːfi Etymology: From Ottoman Turkish صوفی (sufi), from Arabic صُوفِيّ (ṣūfiyy, “man of wool”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|ota|صوفی|tr=sufi}} Ottoman Turkish صوفی (sufi), {{der|en|ar|صُوفِيّ||man of wool}} Arabic صُوفِيّ (ṣūfiyy, “man of wool”), {{root|en|ar|ص و ف}} Head templates: {{en-noun}} Sufi (plural Sufis)
  1. A mystic Muslim; a Muslim ascetic; a practitioner of Sufism. Categories (topical): Sufism Derived forms: Sufism, Sufist, Sufite Related terms: dervish Translations (a Sufi muslim): صُوفِيّ (ṣūfiyy) (Arabic), সুফী (sufī) (Bengali), sufí [masculine] (Catalan), súfijec [masculine] (Czech), suufilainen (Finnish), सूफ़ी (sūfī) [masculine] (Hindi), सूफी (sūphī) [masculine] (Hindi), सोफी (sophī) [masculine] (Hindi), सौफी (sauphī) [masculine] (Hindi), sufi (Italian), сопы (sopy) (Kazakh), супу (supu) (Kumyk), सुफी (suphī) (Marathi), sofî (Northern Kurdish), صوفي (sofí) [masculine] (Pashto), صوفی (sufi) (Persian), درویش (darviš) (Persian), су́фий (súfij) [masculine] (Russian), sufí [masculine] (Spanish), sufii (Swahili), mutasavvıf (Turkish), sufi (Turkish), صوفی (sūfī) [masculine] (Urdu)

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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