Definify.com
Webster 1913 Edition
Yataghan
Yat′a-ghan
,Noun.
[Turk.
yātāghān
.] A long knife, or short saber, common among Mohammedan nations, usually having a double curve, sometimes nearly straight.
[Written also
ataghan
, attaghan
.] Chaucer.
Definition 2024
yataghan
yataghan
English
Alternative forms
Noun
yataghan (plural yataghans)
- A type of sword used in Muslim countries from the mid-16th to late 19th centuries.
- 1855, Sir Richard Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah, Dover 1964, p. 22:
- The angry-faced official communicated the intelligence to a large group of Anadolian, Caramanian, Bosniac, and Roumelian Turks,— sturdy, undersized, broad-shouldered, bare-legged, splay-footed, horny-fisted, dark-browed, honest-looking mountaineers, who were lounging about with long pistols and yataghans stuck in their broad sashes [...].
- 1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate 2006, p. 1041:
- A Montenegrin perceived it and ran immediately to him and drew his yataghan, saying, “You are very brave, and must wish that I should cut off your head rather than that you should fall into the hands of the enemy.”
- 1855, Sir Richard Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah, Dover 1964, p. 22:
Synonyms
- Turkish sword
Translations
type of sword
References
- ↑ "yataghan." Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary Merriam-Webster. 2008.
- ↑ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “yatağan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük.