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Encyclopedia Britannica



SEPOY

This article appears in Volume V24, Page 652 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SCY-SHA
SEPOY , the usual
English
  spelling of sipahi, the Persian and Urdu
term
  for a soldier of any
kind
 , cf. spahi. The word sipah, " army," from which sipahi, " soldier," is derived, corresponds to the Zend cpadha, Old Persian 4pada, and has also found a
home
  in the Turkish, Kurdish and Pashto (Pushtu)
languages
  (see Justi, Handbuch der Zendsprache, p. 303, 6), while its derivative is used in all Indian vernaculars, including Tamil and Burmese, to denote a native soldier, in contradistinction to gora, " a
fair
 -complexioned (
European
 ) soldier." A sepoy is at the present day strictly a private soldier in the native
infantry
  of the Indian army.


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