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Sufism

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

noun

Meaning 1

A family of spiritual schools in Islam emphasizing mysticism and asceticism.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

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Antonyms: none provided

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noun

Meaning 2

Islamic mysticism

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: mysticism, religious mysticism

History

Etymology

Etymology tree English Sufi Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English Sufism From Sufi + -ism.

Across languages

Translations

51 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: تَصَوُّف (taṣawwuf) — Islamic mysticism
  • Azerbaijani: təsəvvüf — Islamic mysticism
  • Azerbaijani: sufilik — Islamic mysticism
  • Bashkir: суфыйсылыҡ (sufıysılıq) — Islamic mysticism
  • Bengali: সুফিবাদ (śuphibad) — Islamic mysticism
  • Catalan: sufisme — Islamic mysticism
  • Chinese Mandarin: 蘇非主義 /苏非主义 (Sūfēizhǔyì) — Islamic mysticism
  • Chinese Mandarin: 蘇菲主義 /苏菲主义 (Sūfēizhǔyì) — Islamic mysticism
  • Chinese Mandarin: 蘇菲派 /苏菲派 (Sūfēipài) — Islamic mysticism
  • Czech: súfismus — Islamic mysticism
  • Danish: sufisme — Islamic mysticism
  • Dutch: soefisme — Islamic mysticism
  • Esperanto: sufiismo — Islamic mysticism
  • Finnish: suufilaisuus — Islamic mysticism
  • French: soufisme — Islamic mysticism
  • French: sufisme — Islamic mysticism
  • German: Sufismus — Islamic mysticism
  • Greek: σουφισμός (soufismós) — Islamic mysticism
  • Gujarati: સૂફીવાદ (sūphīvād) — Islamic mysticism
  • Gujarati: સૂફીમત (sūphīmat) — Islamic mysticism
  • Gujarati: તસવ્વુફ (tasavvuph) — Islamic mysticism
  • Hebrew: סוּפִיוּת — Islamic mysticism
  • Hindi: सूफ़ीमत (sūfīmat) — Islamic mysticism
  • Hindi: सूफ़ीवाद (sūfīvād) — Islamic mysticism
  • Hungarian: szufizmus — Islamic mysticism
  • Indonesian: tasawuf — Islamic mysticism
  • Indonesian: sufisme — Islamic mysticism
  • Italian: sufismo — Islamic mysticism
  • Japanese: スーフィズム — Islamic mysticism
  • Japanese: タサッウフ — Islamic mysticism
  • Japanese: イスラム神秘主義 — Islamic mysticism
  • Kazakh: сопылық (sopylyq) — Islamic mysticism
  • Latin: Sufismus — Islamic mysticism
  • Lezgi: суфивал (sufival) — Islamic mysticism
  • Macedonian: суфи́зам (sufízam) — Islamic mysticism
  • Malay: tasawuf — Islamic mysticism
  • Malay: sufisme — Islamic mysticism
  • Malayalam: സൂഫിസം (sūphisaṁ) — Islamic mysticism
  • Persian: تصوف — Islamic mysticism
  • Portuguese: sufismo — Islamic mysticism
  • Russian: суфи́зм (sufízm) — Islamic mysticism
  • Scots: sufism — Islamic mysticism
  • Serbo-Croatian: sufizam — Islamic mysticism
  • Spanish: sufismo — Islamic mysticism
  • Swahili: usufii — Islamic mysticism
  • Swedish: sufism — Islamic mysticism
  • Turkish: tasavvuf — Islamic mysticism
  • Ukrainian: суфі́зм (sufízm) — Islamic mysticism
  • Urdu: تصوف — Islamic mysticism
  • Uyghur: تەسەۋۋۇپ (tesewwup) — Islamic mysticism
  • Uyghur: سوپىزم (sopizm) — Islamic mysticism
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