hussar
‘a cavalry soldier’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. hussayre, hussare, husare < G. husar < Hun. huszár ‘light horseman’ < O.Ser. husar < kursar ‘pirate’ < Ital. corsaro < Med.Lat. cursarius ‘pirate’ < Lat. cursus ‘course, a running’ < currere ‘to run’ < zaa < kers- < Tamil kaṭu