(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 3:14:46

Sof"ta (?), n. [Corruption of Per. skhtah one who burns, is ardent or zealous.]

Any one attached to a Mohammedan mosque, esp. a student of the higher branches of theology in a mosque school.

[Written also sophta.]

 

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