Kofta vs Softa - What's the difference?
kofta | softa |
Any of various spicy meatball or meatloaf dishes of the Middle East, Caucasus, South Asia, and the Balkans.
(Islam) 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.