different between pahi vs spahi

English

Noun

pahi (plural pahis)

1. A large war canoe of the Society Islands.

Anagrams

• IAPH

Cebuano

Etymology

From Spanish paje.

Noun

pahi

1. a pageboy

English

Etymology

From French spahi, from Ottoman Turkish ?????? (sipahi), from Persian ?????? (sepâhi, “horseman, soldier”) (> sepoy), from ????? (sepâh, “army”). Doublet of sepoy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sp??hi?/

Noun

spahi (plural spahis)

1. (historical) An Ottoman (Turkish empire) cavalryman, especially as recruited under a land-based system.
   • 2001, Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red, tr. Erda? M Göknar

     I hear that the great Sadiki Bey illustrated a copy of Strange Creatures, commissioned by an Uzbek spahi cavalryman, for only forty gold pieces.

2. (historical) 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

Related terms

• sepoy

Translations

Anagrams

• Saiph, aphis, apish, aship, pahis

Dutch

Etymology

From French spahi, from Ottoman Turkish ?????? (sipahi), from Persian ?????? (sepâhi, “horseman, soldier”) (> English sepoy), from ????? (sepâh, “army”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: spa?hi

Noun

spahi m (plural spahi's, diminutive spahietje n)

1. A spahi

Related terms

• sepoy m

French

Etymology

From Turkish sipahi, from Persian ?????? (sip?h?, “horseman, soldier”), from ????? (sip?h, “army”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spa.i/

Noun

spahi m (plural spahis)

1. A spahi

Related terms

• cipaye m

Further reading

• “spahi” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).