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 (born 1979), American actress
References
References
- 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.