Suvari Explained

Suvari or Süvari (Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928);: 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

See also

• Sowar

Notes and References

1. Book: Ostler. Nicholas. Nicholas Ostler. The Last Lingua Franca: English Until the Return of Babel. 2010. Penguin UK. 978-0141922218. 1–352. Even in Ottoman Turkish much military vocabulary is borrowed from Persian (...) The words piyade infantry and süvari 'cavalry' are both directly borrowed from Persian..