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sowar
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sowar \Sow"ar\, n. [Per. saw[=a]r a horseman.] In India, a mounted soldier.
Wiktionary
n. (context historical India English) A soldier on horseback, specially one during the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Raj.
Wikipedia
Sowar (सवार, ਸਵਾਰ, also siwar in Kurdish, Hindi and Persian) meaning "the one who rides" in Kurdish and Persian, was originally a rank during the Mughal, Maratha period. Later during the British Raj it was the name in Anglo-Indian usage for a horse-soldier belonging to the cavalry troops of the native armies of British India and the feudal states. It is also used more specifically of a mounted orderly, escort or guard. It was also the rank held by ordinary cavalry troopers, equivalent to sepoy in the infantry - this rank has been inherited by the modern armies of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.
The Sowar name has been used as the moniker for a line of wrist-watches by the Swiss West End Watch Co.
Sowar is a bimonthly photojournalism and documentary photography magazine published in Beirut, Lebanon. The word "sowar" is the phonetic pronunciation of the Arabic word meaning "pictures".
Usage examples of "sowar".
Several horses and mules were hit, and a sowar in the Guides Cavalry was wounded.
British officer and a bearded sowar, his lance pennant fluttering in the wind off the hill.
When General Meiklejohn found that the garrison of the north camp had not been severely engaged, he ordered a force consisting of two guns and the 31st Punjaub Infantry, under Major Gibbs, covered by forty sowars of the 11th Bengal Lancers, and supported by a wing of the 24th, to move out, reconnoitre the valley and clear it, as much as possible, of the enemy.
A few sowars have frequently been sufficient to drive a hundred of these valiant savages in disorder to the hills, or prevent them descending into the plain for hours.
The garrison of the place consisted at the time of the outbreak of twenty sowars of the 11th Bengal Lancers and two strong companies of the 45th Sikhs, in all about 200 men, under the command of Lieutenant H.
Just as the game was ended, he received a letter, brought in haste by two sowars, from Lieutenant Wheatley, the other subaltern at Chakdara, warning him that a great number of Pathans with flags were advancing on the fort.
Captain Wright and forty sowars of the 11th Bengal Lancers with Captain Baker of the 2nd Bombay Grenadiers and transport officer at the Malakand, started at dawn on the 27th, by the road from the north camp.
At this moment two sowars got clear of the swampy rice fields, and at once galloped, shouting, to the rescue, cutting and slashing at the tribesmen.
Seeing this LieutenantColonel Adams and Lord Fincastle, with Lieutenant Maclean and two or three sowars, dashed to their assistance.
At every difficult turn of the track sowars were posted to secure the retreat, if it should be necessary to come back in a hurry.
The sowars, actuated by a common impulse, rose in their stirrups and began to cheer.
In half an hour, the ill-omened spot was occupied only by the few sowars engaged in shooting the wounded mules, and by the vultures who watched the proceedings with an expectant interest.
Twenty sowars with their carbines were engaged in firing at the enemy, who had occupied a morcha--a small stone fort--some 300 yards away.
Again, however, nobody was hurt, and the sowars reached the hollow, laughing and talking in high glee.
One group of police sowars was standing chatting, taking off equipment, and one, formed up under the command of a havildar, was preparing to go on duty.