The story
- Classical Persian · derived fromشکاری“of hunting”
- Hindi · borrowed fromशिकारी
- Urdu · borrowed fromشکاری
- English todayshikari
From Urdu شکاری / Hindi शिकारी (śikārī), from Classical Persian شکاری (šikārī, “of hunting”), from شکار (šikār, “hunting, game”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.