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Suffola

Suffola is the obsolete form of Sofala.

Meaning of Sofala

Proper noun

Sofala

  1. (historical) The chief seaport of the Mwenemutapa Kingdom, whose capital was at Mount Fura; located on the Sofala Bank in Sofala Province of Mozambique.
  2. A locality in the Bathurst council area and the Mid-Western council area, central eastern New South Wales, Australia.

Questions about Suffola

What is Suffola the obsolete form of?
Suffola is the obsolete form of Sofala.

Words near Suffola in the dictionary

  1. suffocation mates
  2. suffocations
  3. suffocative
  4. suffocator
  5. suffocators
  6. Suffola
  7. Suffolk
  8. Suffolk Coastal
  9. Suffolk County
  10. Suffolk Park
  11. Suffolk Punch

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Suffola (page history and authors); Sofala (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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