Noun

(en noun)

(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= citation

, 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= citation

, 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 . }}

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* 1985 , Kristina Nelson, The Art of Reciting the Qur?an'', (Cairo), (Egypt): (American University in Cairo Press) (2001), ISBN 9774245946, chapter 2: “”, page 25:

Most of these essentially uninflected syllables (CV?C) are names of the letters of the alphabet and introduce some of the suwar of the Qur?anic text.