Spahi vs Shahi - What's the difference?
spahi | shahi |
(history) An Ottoman (Turkish empire) cavalryman, especially as recruited under a land-based system.
* 2001 , Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red , tr. Erda? M Göknar
(history) A soldier in a mainly Arab-recruited cavalry (originally horse, later light armored) regiment in French colonial service in (former/ in name still) Ottoman North African provinces
As nouns the difference between spahi and shahi
is that spahi is (history) an ottoman (turkish empire) cavalryman, especially as recruited under a land-based system while shahi is a former currency unit of iran, worth one twentieth of a qiran.spahi
English
Noun
(en noun)- I hear that the great Sadiki Bey illustrated a copy of Strange Creatures , commissioned by an Uzbek spahi cavalryman, for only forty gold pieces.