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Kukri vs Kopis - What's the difference?

kukri | kopis | see also |

As nouns the difference between kukri and kopis

is that kukri is a curved Nepalese knife used especially by Gurkha fighters while kopis is a short forward curved sword in Ancient Greece used primarily as a cutting tool, but also for combat.

kukri

English

(wikipedia kukri)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A curved Nepalese knife used especially by Gurkha fighters.
  • *1977 , (Alistair Horne), A Savage War of Peace , New York Review Books 2006, p. 171:
  • *:In the later part of the Second World War it was customary in the French army to vaunt the ferocity of ‘their’ Algerian Tirailleurs against the Germans, much as the British took pride in the deeds performed by the Gurkhas with their terrible kukris .
  • *1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game , Folio Society 2010, p. 356:
  • *:Soon, however, the bayonets of the 72nd Highlanders and the kukris of the 2nd Gurkhas began to tell.

    • kopis

    English

    (wikipedia kopis)

    Noun

    (kopis)
  • A short forward curved sword in Ancient Greece used primarily as a cutting tool, but also for combat.

    • See also

    * falcata * kukri ----