different between sepoy vs soldiers

English

Etymology

From Portuguese sipae, from Urdu ?????? (sip?h?)/Hindi ?????? (sip?h?), from Persian ?????? (sepâhi, “soldier, horseman”), from ????? (sepâh, “army”). Doublet of spahi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?si??p??/
• Hyphenation: se?poi

Noun

sepoy (plural sepoys)

1. (historical) A native soldier of the East Indies, employed in the service of a European colonial power, notably the British India army (first under the British-chartered East India Company, later in the crown colony), but also France and Portugal.
   • 1997, Charles E. Davies, The Blood-red Arab Flag: An Investigation Into Qasimi Piracy, 1797-1820, University of Exeter Press (?ISBN), page 312:

     They proved to be the wives of a body of sepoys, also from the 5th Regiment of Bombay Native Infantry; the sepoys had perished, and their families been enslaved, when their pattamar had been captured by the Qawasim some months before.

Translations

Descendants

• ? Chinese: ???
• ? Dutch: sepoy, sipoy
  • ? Indonesian: sepoy
• ? German: Sepoy
• ? Italian: sepoy
• ? Swedish: sepoy
  • ? Finnish: sepoy
• ? Turkish: sepoy

Further reading

• “sepoy”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).
• “sepoy”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “sepoy” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2021.
• “sepoy” in the Collins English Dictionary

References

Anagrams

• Posey, poesy, posey, poyse, poësy

Dutch

Noun

sepoy m (plural sepoys, diminutive sepoytje n)

1. A sepoy, native soldier in the East Indies

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?so?ld??z/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s??ld??z/, /?s?ld??z/
• Hyphenation: sol?diers

Noun

soldiers

1. plural of soldier

Verb

soldiers

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of soldier

Anagrams

• serolids