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sowarree

sowarree noun: a mounted procession; a cavalcade.

Noun

sowarree (plural sowarrees)

  1. (India, dated) A 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.

Forms of sowarree

pluralsowarrees
alternative formsowarry
alternative formsuwarree

Origin of sowarree

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.

Questions about sowarree

What does sowarree mean?
Sowarree means a mounted procession; a cavalcade.
What part of speech is sowarree?
Sowarree is a noun.
What is the plural of sowarree?
The plural of sowarree is sowarrees.

Words near sowarree in the dictionary

  1. sowan
  2. sowans
  3. sowar
  4. Soward
  5. Sowards
  6. sowarree
  7. sowarrees
  8. sowarries
  9. sowarry
  10. sowars
  11. Sowas

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