assegai

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• UK: /ˈæsəɡaɪ/
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From French azagaie (now zagaie) or Portuguese azagaia, Spanish azagaya, and later in the forms that have become most common borrowed from Afrikaans assegaai, from colloquial Arabic اَلزَّغَايَة (az-zaḡāya), from Proto-Berber *zaġāya (“spear”).

18 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: assegaai — slim hardwood spear or javelin with an iron tip
• Arabic: زَغَايَة (zaḡāya) — slim hardwood spear or javelin with an iron tip
• Catalan: atzagaia — slim hardwood spear or javelin with an iron tip
• Dutch: assagaai — slim hardwood spear or javelin with an iron tip
• Dutch: assegaai — slim hardwood spear or javelin with an iron tip
• French: sagaie — slim hardwood spear or javelin with an iron tip
• French: zagaie — slim hardwood spear or javelin with an iron tip
• German: Assagai — slim hardwood spear or javelin with an iron tip
• Ido: zagayo — slim hardwood spear or javelin with an iron tip
• Italian: zagaglia — slim hardwood spear or javelin with an iron tip
• Portuguese: azagaia — slim hardwood spear or javelin with an iron tip
• Portuguese: zagaia — slim hardwood spear or javelin with an iron tip
• Spanish: azagaya — slim hardwood spear or javelin with an iron tip
• Swedish: assegaj — slim hardwood spear or javelin with an iron tip
• Zulu: umkhonto — slim hardwood spear or javelin with an iron tip
• Afrikaans: assegai — tree species Curtisia dentata
• Afrikaans: assegaaiboom — tree species Curtisia dentata
• Portuguese: azagaia — tree species Curtisia dentata