spahi
French, noun/spa.i/
spahi is a French masculine noun meaning “spahi” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Soldat ottoman qui servait à cheval”.
What does spahi mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinespahi
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Soldat ottoman qui servait à cheval. 2. Soldat des troupes de cavalerie indigène d’Afrique du Nord ou du Sénégal, dont les cadres étaient français.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of spahi
- spahis plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce spahi?
- /spa.i/
- \spa.i\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is spahi in French?
spahi appears about once in every 24 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).