资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Softa \Sof"ta\, n. [Corruption of Per. s?khtah one who burns, is
   ardent or zealous.]
   Any one attached to a Mohammedan mosque, esp. a student of
   the higher branches of theology in a mosque school. [Written
   also {sophta}.]