khanjar
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /ˈkand͡ʒə/
Noun

khanjar (plural khanjars)

  1. A kind of dagger used in certain Arabian countries.
    • 2003, Carl S Raswan, Black Tents of Arabia, Xlibris 2003, p. 6:
      The small khanjar is a curved dagger, and it was with this very one Nuri had killed in single combat a minor chieftain of the Muntefiq.
Translations
  • French: kandjar
  • German: Handschar
  • Italian: khanjar
  • Portuguese: khanjar, canjar
  • Russian: ханджа́р
  • Spanish: janyar



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