 The various other renderings of the word are following; Parthian "asbār", Middle Persian "aspabārak", Classical Persian "suwār" (), "uswār"/"iswār" (), Modern Persian "savār" ().The Arabic word "asāwira" (), used to refer to a certain faction of the Sasanian cavalry after the Muslim conquest, is a broken plural form of the Middle Persian "aswār".However, the word "aswār" only means "horseman" in Middle Persian literature, and it is only the late Arabic term which has a more specialized meaning.