Definition of Savara

1. Noun. A member of the Dravidian people living in southern India.

Generic synonyms: Dravidian

2. Noun. A Dravidian language spoken by the Savara in southeastern India (north of Madras).
Generic synonyms: South-central Dravidian

Lexicographical Neighbors of Savara

Saussurea
Saussurea costus
Saussurea lappa
Sauterne
Sauternes
Sauvignon blanc
Sauvignon grape
Sava
Savage's perineal body
Savage syndrome
Savagean
Savagnin
Savanna
Savannah
Savannah River
Savara
Savary bougies
Savilian
Savior
Saviour
Saviours
Savitar
Savitr
Savo-Finnish
Savo Finnish
Savoie
Savona
Savonarola
Savonia
Savonian

Literary usage of Savara

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Diplomat in London: Letters and Notes 1871-1877 by Charles Gavard (1897)
"... Extracts from tbc private Correspondence of Ok. (savara. LONDON, CLARENDON-HOTEL, February, 14, 1871. Here we are at last in a land where there are no ..."

2. Report of a Tour in the Central Provinces and Lower Gangetic Doab in 1881-82 by Alexander Cunningham (1884)
"But in the earlier part of his work there is no confusion of this kind, as the savara chief, the father of Sundari, is a savara throughout. ..."

3. A Gazetteer of Ethnology by Akira Matsumura (1908)
"savara, in Orissa, India; also written Saora, Saur, Saura. ... savara ^ Jf, a 0 savara ? %_. a 0 Chippewa =. ffi i>0 r > /> KJ- 'J o Saulteaux r ^ tt^o ..."

4. Chips from a German Workshop by Friedrich Max Müller, Christian Karl Josias Bunsen (1890)
"I thus arrived at " savara," as a modified form 1 Durga, in his Commentary on the Nirukta (MS. EIH 357, p. ..."

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