Yatagan vs Yataghan - What's the difference?
yatagan | yataghan | Alternative forms |
A type of sword used in Muslim countries from the mid-16th to late 19th centuries.
* 1855 , Sir Richard Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah , Dover 1964, p. 22:
* 1942 , Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon , Canongate 2006, p. 1041:
Yataghan is a coordinate term of yatagan.
Yataghan is a alternative form of yatagan.
As nouns the difference between yatagan and yataghan
is that yatagan is an alternative spelling of lang=en while yataghan is a type of sword used in Muslim countries from the mid-16th to late 19th centuries.yataghan
English
(yatagan)Alternative forms
* ataghan * yataganNoun
(en noun)- The angry-faced official communicated the intelligence to a large group of Anadolian, Caramanian, Bosniac, and Roumelian Turks,— sturdy, undersized, broad-shouldered, bare-legged, splay-footed, horny-fisted, dark-browed, honest-looking mountaineers, who were lounging about with long pistols and yataghans stuck in their broad sashes [...].
- A Montenegrin perceived it and ran immediately to him and drew his yataghan , saying, “You are very brave, and must wish that I should cut off your head rather than that you should fall into the hands of the enemy.”
