suwar

Noun (1)

sura (plural suras or suwar)

1. Any of the 114 chapters of the Quran.
   • Most of these essentially uninflected syllables (CV̄C) are names of the letters of the alphabet and introduce some of the suwar of the Qurʾanic text.1985, Kristina Nelson, The Art of Reciting the Qurʾan, Cairo, Egypt: American University in Cairo Press (2001), chapter 2: “Tajwīd”, page 25

Noun (2)

sura (uncountable)

1. The sap of the palmyra or of the coconut palm, palm wine.

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Noun

sowar (plural sowars)

1. (India, historical) A soldier on horseback, especially one during the British Raj.
   • I have been laboring under the impression that, for soul-harrowing vocal effort, the wild-eyed sowars of Khorassan, as exemplified in my escort from Beerjand, were entitled to the worst execrations of a discriminating Ferenghi, but the Afghans can go them one better.1887, Thomas Stevens, chapter XII, in Around the World on a Bicycle, Vol. II: From Teheran to Yokohama, London: Sampson Low […]