Swords Related To Arabic Scimitar
Many swords are related to the Arabic Scimitar (Sief)
- Zulfiqar is the sword of the Islamic leader Ali.
- Pulwar (Afghanistan) a single handed curved sword from Afghanistan and Pakistan. It is the traditional sword of the Pashtun people.
- Shamshir (Persia)
- Talwar (North India) a type of curved sword or sabre from the Indian sub-continent, found in the modern countries of India, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
- Kilij (Turkish) a type of one-handed, single edged and moderately curved sabre used by the Turks and related cultures.
- Mameluke sword(18th to 19th century Egyptian) and modern French, British and American Armies.
- Flyssa (19th century Algeria)
- Kaskara (19th century Sudan)
- Nimcha (18th century Morocco)
- Shotel (Ethiopian scimitar)
- Takoba (Tuareg sword)
- Mohannad an Arabic name of a famous sword type.
- Alfanje is a type of Spanish swords. From The Arabic al-janyar "dagger". See Arabic language influence on the Spanish language
- Xiphos a double-edged, single-hand sword used by the ancient Greeks. Its etymology of the name is unknown, apparently a loanword of non-Greek origin. A relation to Arabic saifun and Egyptian sēfet has been suggested.
- Kampílan a single-edged long sword, used by Philippine Moros.
- Szabla the Polish word for sabre. It specifically refers to an Eastern European one-edged sabre-like mêlée weapon with a curved blade and, in most cases, a two-bladed tip called a feather (pióro). It appeared in the 14th and 15th centuries. Until the 19th century, it served as a symbol of the nobility (szlachta) in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
- Karabela was a type of Polish sabre (szabla). It was popular in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 1670s.
- Swiss sabre
- Sabre
- Firangi (sword)
- Aldaspan (Kazakh language) is a kind of heavy sabre that was used by Turkic tribes in Eurasia.
- Sword of King Carol I of Romania
- Sword of Osman was an important sword of state used during the coronation ceremony of the sultans of the Ottoman Empire.
- Shamshir-e Zomorrodnegar
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