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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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