scimitar

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First attested in 1548. From Middle French cimeterre (15c.) or directly from Italian scimitarra, possibly from an unknown Ottoman Turkish word, ultimately from Classical Persian شمشیر (šamšēr, “sword”). Doublet of shamshir.

83 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: سَيْف (sayf) — sword with curved blade
• Bengali: শমশের (śomośer) — sword with curved blade
• Bengali: তেগ (teg) — sword with curved blade
• Bengali: তলোয়ার (tôloar) — sword with curved blade
• Bengali: তরোয়াল (tôroal) — sword with curved blade
• Bulgarian: ятаган (jatagan) — sword with curved blade
• Catalan: simitarra — sword with curved blade
• Chinese Mandarin: 彎刀 /弯刀 (wāndāo) — sword with curved blade
• Czech: turecká šavle — sword with curved blade
• Czech: šavle — sword with curved blade
• Czech: šimitar — sword with curved blade
• Czech: šamšír — sword with curved blade
• Danish: krumsabel — sword with curved blade
• Dutch: kromsabel — sword with curved blade
• Dutch: kromzwaard — sword with curved blade
• Finnish: käyräsapeli — sword with curved blade
• French: cimeterre — sword with curved blade
• Galician: cimitarra — sword with curved blade
• German: Krummsäbel — sword with curved blade
• German: Scimitar — sword with curved blade
• Ancient Greek: σαμψήρα (sampsḗra) — sword with curved blade
• Ancient Greek: ξιφοδρέπανον (xiphodrépanon) — sword with curved blade
• Gujarati: શમશેર (śamśer) — sword with curved blade
• Gujarati: સમશેર (samśer) — sword with curved blade
• Hindi: शमशेर (śamśer) — sword with curved blade
• Hindi: शमशीर (śamśīr) — sword with curved blade
• Hindi: समसेर (samser) — sword with curved blade
• Hindi: तलवार (talvār) — sword with curved blade
• Hindi: तेग (teg) — sword with curved blade
• Hindi: सैफ (saiph) — sword with curved blade
• Hindi: असि (asi) — sword with curved blade
• Hindi: खड्ग (khaḍg) — sword with curved blade
• Hindi: खाँड़ा (khā̃ṛā) — sword with curved blade
• Hindi: खाड़ा (khāṛā) — sword with curved blade
• Hindi: खंडा (khaṇḍā) — sword with curved blade
• Hindi: खंग (khaṅg) — sword with curved blade
• Hindi: कृपाण (kŕpāṇ) — sword with curved blade
• Hindi: करंड (karaṇḍ) — sword with curved blade
• Hindi: छुरिका (churikā) — sword with curved blade
• Hindi: छुरी (churī) — sword with curved blade
• Hungarian: handzsár — sword with curved blade
• Icelandic: bjúgsverð — sword with curved blade
• Ido: cimitaro — sword with curved blade
• Irish: simeatár — sword with curved blade
• Italian: scimitarra — sword with curved blade
• Japanese: シミター (shimitā) — sword with curved blade
• Japanese: 弯刀 (wantō) — sword with curved blade
• Korean: 시미타 (simita) — sword with curved blade
• Latin: acīnacēs — sword with curved blade
• Latin: cymithārra — sword with curved blade
• Macedonian: анџар (andžar) — sword with curved blade
• Macedonian: јатаган (jatagan) — sword with curved blade
• Maltese: ximitarra — sword with curved blade
• Persian: شمشیر (šamšir) — sword with curved blade
• Persian: تیغ (tiġ) — sword with curved blade
• Persian: دشنه (dešne, dašne) — sword with curved blade
• Persian: پلارک (palârak) — sword with curved blade
• Polish: bułat — sword with curved blade
• Portuguese: cimitarra — sword with curved blade
• Punjabi: ਸ਼ਮਸ਼ੀਰ (śamśīr) — sword with curved blade
• Punjabi: ਸ਼ੁਮਸ਼ੇਰ (śumśer) — sword with curved blade
• Romanian: iatagan — sword with curved blade
• Russian: сцимита́р (scimitár) — sword with curved blade
• Russian: скимита́р (skimitár) — sword with curved blade
• Russian: ятага́н (jatagán) — sword with curved blade
• Russian: крива́я са́бля (krivája sáblja) — sword with curved blade
• Sanskrit: असि (asi) — sword with curved blade
• Scottish Gaelic: claidheamh crom — sword with curved blade
• Serbo-Croatian: ха̀нџа̄р — sword with curved blade
• Serbo-Croatian: hàndžār — sword with curved blade
• Slovene: handžar — sword with curved blade
• Spanish: cimitarra — sword with curved blade
• Swahili: kitara — sword with curved blade
• Swedish: kroksabel — sword with curved blade
• Tamil: வக்கிரகட்கம் (vakkirakaṭkam) — sword with curved blade
• Tamil: கத்தி (katti) — sword with curved blade
• Telugu: ఖడ్గము (khaḍgamu) — sword with curved blade
• Tulu: ತಲ್ವಾರ್ (talvārŭ) — sword with curved blade
• Turkish: yatağan (yataghan) — sword with curved blade
• Ottoman Turkish: شمشیر (şemşir, şimşir) — sword with curved blade
• Urdu: شمشیر (śamśer, śamśīr) — sword with curved blade
• Welsh: cleddyf cam — sword with curved blade
• Yiddish: סצימיטאַר (stsimitar) — sword with curved blade