cutlass (European sword with a straight or slightly curved blade) · scimitar (Middle Eastern sword with a curved blade) · scythe (agricultural hand tool with a blade)
çekim: çoğul alfanjes
köken: Etymology tree Middle Persian [Term?] Classical Persian خَنْجَر (xanjar)bor. Arabic خَنْجَر (ḵanjar) Andalusian Arabicbor. Portuguese alfanje Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic, from Arabic خَنْجَر (ḵanjar).
Bauernwehr (typical weapon of the common people in the Middle Ages and early modern times, which was particularly widespread in the 15th and 16th centuries) · cutlass (short sword with a curved blade, and a convex edge; once used by sailors when boarding an enemy ship)
çekim: çoğul kordy · tamlayan korda
köken: Etymology tree Hungarian kardbor. Polish kord Borrowed from Hungarian kard. Doublet of kard.
sabre/saber, cutlass (a smaller, light sword with a curved, single-edged blade)
çekim: çoğul szablyák
köken: According to archaeological finds, the sabre was used by the conquering Magyars in the 9th century but the exact origin of the word is still debated by linguists. It is believed to be borrowed from a Turkic language, such as Kipchak (compare modern Kazakh селебе (selebe)) with contamination from the Hungarian verb szab (“to cut”). This Turkic source could ultimately be of Tungusic origin, from…