Sa·fa·wid
variants:
or Safavid \
səˈfäˌwēd
\
or less commonly Safavi \
-ä(ˌ)wē
\
plural -s
Definition of Safawid
: a member of an Islamic Persian dynasty founded in 1502 by Shah Ismail
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The first known use of Safawid was in 1888
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