Askari
[ɑːˈskɑːri]Background Story
Askari comes from the Swahili word and the Arabic ʿaskarī, meaning "soldier" or "military", and "police" in Somali. It was the term for a locally recruited soldier serving in the European colonial armies in Africa, and is used in that sense in English, German, Italian, Urdu and Portuguese, though in French only for native troops outside the French colonial empire. The sources checked do not record it as a personal name.
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