Sowar vs Solar - What's the difference?
sowar | solar |
(historical, India) A soldier on horseback, specially one during the .
*{{quote-book, year=1897, author=Frederick Sleigh Roberts, title=Forty-one years in India, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Among the latter was Hope Grant, who had his horse shot under him in a charge, and was saved by the devotion of two men of his own regiment (the 9th Lancers) and a Mahomedan sowar of the 4th Irregular Cavalry. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1910, author=Charles John Griffiths, title=A Narrative Of The Siege Of Delhi, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Hills was struck down badly wounded, and was on the point of being despatched by a sowar', when Major Tombs, hearing the noise, rushed out of his tent, and seeing the plight his subaltern was in, fired his revolver at thirty yards and killed the ' sowar . }}
Of or pertaining to the sun; proceeding from the sun; as, the solar system; solar light; solar rays; solar influence.
(astrology, obsolete) Born under the predominant influence of the sun.
* Dryden
Measured by the progress or revolution of the sun in the ecliptic; as, the solar year.
Produced by the action of the sun, or peculiarly affected by its influence.
* Francis Bacon
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (obsolete) A loft or upper chamber forming the private accommodation of the head of the household in a medieval hall; a garret room.
As a noun sowar
is (historical|india) a soldier on horseback, specially one during the.As a verb solar is
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From Late (etyl) solar, from (etyl) .Adjective
(-)- and proud beside, as solar people are
- They denominate some herbs solar , and some lunar.
Out of the gloom, passage=[Rural solar' plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is ' solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.}}