Sepoy

//ˈsiːˌpɔɪ//

Synonyms for "sepoy" (7 found)

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Closest matches (2)

Strong matches (2)

Related words (3)

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Translations

27 translations across 25 languages.

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Arabic

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  • سِبَاهِي noun (a native soldier of the East Indies)

Armenian

1 entries
  • սիփահի noun (a native soldier of the East Indies)

Belarusian

1 entries
  • сіпа́й noun (a native soldier of the East Indies)

Bengali

1 entries
  • সিপাহী noun (a native soldier of the East Indies)

Catalan

1 entries
  • sipai noun (a native soldier of the East Indies)

Dutch

2 entries
  • sepoy noun (a native soldier of the East Indies)
  • sipoy noun (a native soldier of the East Indies)

French

1 entries
  • cipaye noun (a native soldier of the East Indies)

German

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  • Sepoy noun (a native soldier of the East Indies)

Hindi

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  • सिपाही noun (a native soldier of the East Indies)

Hungarian

1 entries
  • szipoj noun (a native soldier of the East Indies)

Indonesian

1 entries
  • sipahi noun (a native soldier of the East Indies)

Iranian Persian

1 entries
  • سِپاهی noun (a native soldier of the East Indies)

Italian

1 entries
  • sepoy noun (a native soldier of the East Indies)

Macedonian

1 entries
  • сепој noun (a native soldier of the East Indies)

Malayalam

1 entries
  • ശിപായി noun (a native soldier of the East Indies)

Ottoman Turkish

1 entries
  • سپاهی noun (a native soldier of the East Indies)

Persian

1 entries
  • سِپَاهِی noun (a native soldier of the East Indies)

Portuguese

2 entries
  • cipaio noun (a native soldier of the East Indies)
  • sipaio noun (a native soldier of the East Indies)

Russian

1 entries
  • сипа́й noun (a native soldier of the East Indies)

Spanish

1 entries
  • cipayo noun (a native soldier of the East Indies)

Tamil

1 entries
  • சிப்பாய் noun (a native soldier of the East Indies)

Telugu

1 entries
  • సిపాయి noun (a native soldier of the East Indies)

Turkish

1 entries
  • sepoy noun (a native soldier of the East Indies)

Ukrainian

1 entries
  • сипа́й noun (a native soldier of the East Indies)

Urdu

1 entries
  • سِپاہی noun (a native soldier of the East Indies)

Sample sentences

3 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

We are far from being so inspired with a Russophobia as to regard the time as at hand when the Russian Cossack and the English Sepoy shall knock their noses together while acting as sentinels upon their respective frontiers.

Source: tatoeba (11796191)

If our door were in the hands of the Sepoys the place must fall, and the women and children be treated as they were in Cawnpore.

Source: wiktionary

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.

Source: wiktionary

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