scimitar

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a saber with a curved blade, historically associated with the Middle East and parts of South and Central Asia

   The museum displayed a jeweled scimitar beside other ceremonial weapons.

From French cimeterre or Italian scimitarra, ultimately connected with Persian shamshir ("sword"), though the intermediate history is uncertain. English used the word broadly for curved swords associated with the Islamic world.

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