sowarree

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English

Etymology

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.

Noun

sowarree (plural sowarrees)

  1. (dated, India) A mounted procession; a cavalcade.
    • 1851, James Baillie Fraser, Military Memoir of Lieut-Col. James Skinner, C. B.:
      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.

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