🔤 Janissary ✨
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URDU
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ENGLISH
📚noun
janissary
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PRONUNCIATION
Standard: -səɹi
Phonetic: -səɹi
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DEFINITION
An infantry soldier, often of Christian descent and forcibly converted to Islam, in a former elite Turkish (Ottoman) guard (disbanded in 1826); by extension, any Turkish soldier, particularly one escorting a traveller.
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