selictar

Meaning

Noun

The swordbearer of a Turkish chief; a member of a Turkish cavalry corps.

Origin

Corrupt from Ottoman Turkish سلاحدار, the first part being the Arabic سِلَاح and the second the Persian دار suffix.

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