sowarree

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noun

A mounted procession; a cavalcade.

OriginUrdu سوار ← Persian سوار ← Old Persian 𐎠𐎿𐎲𐎠𐎼 →
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Meanings

nounsowarree (plural sowarrees)

plural sowarrees · alternative sowarry · alternative suwarree

  1. IndiadatedA mounted procession; a cavalcade.

    The Rajah's sowarree was very grand and superb. He had twenty elephants with richly embroidered ambarrehs, the whole of them mounted by his Sirdars,—he himself riding on the largest, just in the centre.

    1851, James Baillie Fraser, Military Memoir of Lieut-Col. James Skinner, C. B.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-Iranian*Haćwabʰāras
  2. Proto-Iranian*Hacwabāráh
  3. Old Persian𐎠𐎿𐎲𐎠𐎼“horseman”
  4. Persianسوار“rider”
  5. Urduسوار“swordsman”
  6. Englishsowarree

From Urdu سوار (savār, “swordsman”), borrowed from Persian سوار (savâr, “rider”), from Old Persian 𐎠𐎿𐎲𐎠𐎼 (a-s-b-a-r /⁠asabāra-⁠/, “horseman”), from Proto-Iranian *Hacwabāráh, ultimately from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Haćwabʰāras.

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Chicago

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