softa
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noun
- A religious student, especially in Turkey
"1896: The softas, concerning whose exploits we have heard so much of late, are the theological students who wish to become ulemas, or, literally, learned men. — Eliakim Littell and Robert S. Littell (1896), Living Age, volume 208, p. 330."
- (by extension) A fanatic adherent, blind follower
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