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yataghan

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • /ˈjætəɡæn/
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1

noun

Meaning 1

A type of sword used in Muslim countries from the mid-16th to late 19th centuries.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

a long Turkish knife with a curved blade having a single edge

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: knife

History

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish یتاغان (modern Turkish yatağan), related to Old Turkic [script needed] (yat-, “to bend, incline; to lie”), whence also words like yatmak (“to lie”), yatak (“bed”), yatay (“horizontal”), etc.

Across languages

Translations

22 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Armenian: յաթաղան (yatʻaġan) — type of sword
  • Belarusian: ятага́н (jatahán) — type of sword
  • Bulgarian: ятага́н (jatagán) — type of sword
  • Chinese Mandarin: 彎刀 /弯刀 (wāndāo) — type of sword
  • Dutch: jatagan — type of sword
  • French: yatagan — type of sword
  • Georgian: იატაგანი (iaṭagani) — type of sword
  • German: Yatagan — type of sword
  • German: Jatagan — type of sword
  • Greek: γιαταγάνι (giatagáni) — type of sword
  • Hungarian: jatagán — type of sword
  • Ido: yatagano — type of sword
  • Japanese: ヤタガン (yatagan) — type of sword
  • Ladino: yatagan — type of sword
  • Macedonian: ја́таган (játagan) — type of sword
  • Polish: jatagan — type of sword
  • Portuguese: iatagã — type of sword
  • Romanian: iatagan — type of sword
  • Russian: ятага́н (jatagán) — type of sword
  • Spanish: yatagán — type of sword
  • Turkish: yatağan — type of sword
  • Ukrainian: ятага́н (jatahán) — type of sword