Sufi

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

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

• Rhymes: -uːfi

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.

• Sufism
• Sufist
• Sufite

• dervish

• FIUs, USFI, sifu