Sofees

Those Turks which ſeem to be profeſſors of religion and devotion, and would be accounted * Sofees, do commonly read, as they walk along the ſtreets, and have their Beads longer then other men, carrying them in their hands into the Moſcheas, and are ever buſy with them as they walk up and down the ſtreets, […]

1737, John Greaves, “A description of the Grand Seignor's seraglio, or Turkish emperor's court”, in Miscellaneous works of Mr. John Greaves, professor of astronomy in the University of Oxford, volume 2, London: Thomas Birch, →OCLC, pages 785–786