: a native of India employed as a soldier by a European power
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More recently, Tytler and his young wife, Harriet Tytler—she eight months pregnant, with two small children at her side—had narrowly escaped Delhi in 1857, when the sepoys, or Indian infantrymen, mutinied.—Adam Goodheart, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Sep. 2023
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Portuguese sipai, from Hindi & Urdu sipāhī, from Persian, cavalryman
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