India. Also -aun, ser-, sirwan. [a. Urdū = Pers. sārbān, f. sār camel + -bān keeper.] A camel-driver.
1821. [M. Sherer], Sk. India, 242. To … hire good camels, and to engage surwans for them.
1828. Mundy, Pen & Pencil Sketches (1832), II. i. 1. Camels … resisting every effort … of their serwâns to induce them to embark.
1884. F. Boyle, Borderland, 239. The sirwans were mustering at earliest dawn.
