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A scimitar is a backsword or sabre with a curved blade, originating in Southwest Asia (Middle East).


Swords related to Scimitar

Many swords are related to the Scimitar

  • Aldaspan (Kazakh language) is a kind of heavy sabre that was used by Turkic tribes in Eurasia.
  • Template:Ill is a type of Spanish swords. From The Arabic al-janyar "dagger". See Arabic language influence on the Spanish language
  • Firangi
  • Flyssa (19th-century Algeria)
  • Kampilan a single-edged long sword, used by Philippine Moros.
  • Karabela was a type of Polish sabre (szabla). It was popular in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 1670s.
  • Kaskara (19th-century Sudan)
  • Kilij (Turkish) a type of one-handed, single edged and moderately curved sabre used by the Turks and related cultures.
  • Mameluke sword (18th- to 19th-century Egyptian) and modern French, British and American Armies.
  • Mohannad an Arabic name of a famous sword type.
  • Nimcha (18th-century Morocco)
  • Pulwar (Afghanistan) a single handed curved sword from Afghanistan and Pakistan. It is the traditional sword of the Pashtun people.
  • Sabre
  • Shamshir (Persia)
  • Shamshir-e Zomorrodnegar
  • Shotel (Ethiopian scimitar)
  • Swiss sabre
  • Sword of King Carol I of Romania
  • Sword of Osman was an important sword of state used during the coronation ceremony of the sultans of the Ottoman Empire.
  • Szabla the Polish word for sabre. It specifically refers to an Eastern European one-edged sabre-like mêlée weapon with a curved blade and, in most cases, a two-bladed tip called a feather (pióro). It appeared in the 14th and 15th centuries. Until the 19th century, it served as a symbol of the nobility (szlachta) in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
  • Takoba (Tuareg sword)
  • Talwar (North India) a type of curved sword or sabre from the Indian sub-continent, found in the modern countries of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan.
  • Xiphos a double-edged, single-hand sword used by the ancient Greeks. Its etymology of the name is unknown, apparently a loanword of non-Greek origin. A relation to Arabic saifun and Egyptian sēfet has been suggested.
  • Zulfiqar is the sword of Caliph Ali.

See also

  • Al-Kindi wrote a book on the manufacture of Arabic swords.
  • Chifle is a dish of Peru and Ecuador, consisting of fried slices of plantain. The term "chifle" most likely comes from the Arabic "chofre", which in Medieval Spain was used to refer to the blade of the sword, lending the name to the snack food of fried plantains sliced into circles with the blade of a sword.
  • Cimeter, a common and standard name for a butcher's knife
  • Damascus steel, the famous Arabic steel of swords
  • Dandoqa, a village in Pakistan, the meaning of which in Arabic is Broken/Cutted sharp & lethal SWORD
  • Saiph, the sixth-brightest star in the constellation of Orion, from the Arabic saif al jabbar, 'سیف الجبّار' literally sword of the giant.
  • The Golden Blade, a 1953 film.
  • Zanahoria is a Spanish word for carrot. The Libyan Tunisian Arabic dialect carrot is known as sfinaria, meaning "The Sword of Fire" (السيف الناري). See Arabic language influence on the Spanish language.




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