What is the difference between yataghan and sword?
yataghan | sword |
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:
(weaponry) A long-bladed weapon having a handle and sometimes a hilt and designed to stab, hew, or slice.
* 1591 , William Shakespeare, Henry VI , Part III, Act II, Scene II, line 59.
* 1786 , Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons , page 49.
Someone paid to handle a sword.
(tarot) A suit in the minor arcana in tarot.
(tarot) A card of this suit.
(weaving) One of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended.
Yataghan is a coordinate term of sword.
As nouns the difference between yataghan and sword
is that yataghan is a type of sword used in muslim countries from the mid-16th to late 19th centuries while sword is (weaponry) a long-bladed weapon having a handle and sometimes a hilt and designed to stab, cut or slash .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.”
Synonyms
* Turkish swordReferences
sword
English
Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- Unsheathe your sword and dub him presently.
- Some swords were also made solely to thrust, and some only to cut; others were equally adapted for both.
