Suvari
Suvari or Süvari (Ottoman Turkish: سوارى; Turkish: Süvari, "cavalry", from Persian Sawār)[1] is a Turkish or Estonian surname. As a Turkish surname it means "cavalry soldier".
It may refer to:
- Adnan Suvari (1926-1991), Turkish football coach
- Mena Suvari, American actress
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References[edit]
- ^ Ostler, Nicholas (2010). The Last Lingua Franca: English Until the Return of Babel. Penguin UK. pp. 1–352. ISBN 978-0141922218.
Even in Ottoman Turkish much military vocabulary is borrowed from Persian (...) The words piyade infantry and süvari 'cavalry' are both directly borrowed from Persian.
This page lists people with the surname Suvari.
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