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safawid

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Sa⋅fa⋅vid

  [sah-fah-weed]
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–noun
a member of a dynasty that ruled in Persia from c1500 to 1736.
Also, Sa⋅fa⋅wid  [sah-fah-weed] .

Origin:
1910–15; < Ar ṣafawī, adj. deriv. of Ṣafī al-Dīn Isḥāq, ancestor of royal house + -id 1
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