Sufism
Sufism noun: a family of spiritual schools in Islam emphasizing mysticism and asceticism.
Noun
Sufism (uncountable)
- A family of spiritual schools in Islam emphasizing mysticism and asceticism.
Sufism meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
Sufism in Hindi
- Islamic mysticism
- सूफ़ीमत sūfīmat, सूफ़ीवाद sūfīvād
Sufism in Urdu
- Islamic mysticism
- تصوف
Sufism in Bengali
- Islamic mysticism
- সুফিবাদ śuphibad
Sufism in Malayalam
- Islamic mysticism
- സൂഫിസം sūphisaṁ
More languagesFewer languages
- Sufism in Punjabi
- تصوف tasavvuf
- Sufism in Gujarati
- સૂફીવાદ sūphīvād, સૂફીમત sūphīmat, તસવ્વુફ tasavvuph
- Sufism in Arabic
- تَصَوُّف taṣawwuf
- Sufism in Malay
- tasawuf, sufisme
- Sufism in Indonesian
- tasawuf, sufisme
- Sufism in Persian
- تصوف
Origin of Sufism
From Sufi + -ism.
Questions about Sufism
- What does Sufism mean?
- Sufism means a family of spiritual schools in Islam emphasizing mysticism and asceticism.
- What is Sufism in Hindi?
- Sufism in Hindi is सूफ़ीमत (sūfīmat), सूफ़ीवाद (sūfīvād). See Sufism meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is Sufism?
- Sufism is a noun.
Words near Sufism in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: Sufism (page history and authors); تصوف (Punjabi) (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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