Suvari

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Suvari or Süvari (Ottoman Turkish: سوارى; Turkish: Süvari, "cavalry", from Persian Sawār)[1] is a Turkish or Estonian surname. As a Turkish surname it means "cavalry soldier".

It may refer to:

See also

References

  1. ^ Ostler, Nicholas (2010). The Last Lingua Franca: English Until the Return of Babel. Penguin UK. pp. 1–352. ISBN 978-0141922218. Even in Ottoman Turkish much military vocabulary is borrowed from Persian (...) The words piyade infantry and süvari 'cavalry' are both directly borrowed from Persian.