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askari
[ as-kuh-ree ]
noun
, plural as·ka·ris, as·ka·ri.
- an African police officer or soldier, especially one serving a colonial administration.
askari
/ asˈkaːri /
noun
- (in East Africa) a soldier or policeman
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of askari1
C19: from Arabic: soldier
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Example Sentences
It has been six months since unknown insurgents destroyed the Al-Askari mosque in Samarra.
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Graceful as a deer was Nazoro, and a good Askari lost in a better operating-room boy.
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Loads were piled neatly, covered with a tarpaulin, and the pile guarded by an askari.
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He thought of going out to join the askari, or native guard, who was keeping watch some thirty feet away.
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It seemed absolutely endless, and once or twice I feared that two of the Askari would have died of the wet, cold, and exposure.
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Fortunately there were at Lamu at this time a party of Wakwafi Askari (soldiers).
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