What is another word for scimitar?

Pronunciation: [sˈɪmɪtə] (IPA)

A scimitar, sometimes spelled as cimetar or semitar, is a curved sword with a sharp blade designed for slicing. The blade of a scimitar is often slightly curved and its point is more often curving towards the tip of the blade. The scimitar is synonymous with the term "sabre" and "falchion". The term "sabre" often refers to any curved blade weapon used in battle, while a "falchion" is a short and heavy sword that was common in medieval Europe. Other synonyms for scimitar include "cutlass", "curved sword", and "shamshir". These swords were often used as a symbol of power by military chiefs, such as the Ottoman Empire, and continue to be popular among collectors and martial arts enthusiasts alike.

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What are the hypernyms for Scimitar?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.
  • Other hypernyms:

    bladed weapon, edged weapon, curved sword.

What are the hyponyms for Scimitar?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.

Usage examples for Scimitar

Again and again I saw these little springtails skip through the very scimitar mandibles of a soldier, while the workers paid no attention to them.
"Edge of the Jungle"
William Beebe
I saw that curved thing-like a scimitar.
"The Man From the Clouds"
J. Storer Clouston
But who on earth would be using a scimitar in these islands?
"The Man From the Clouds"
J. Storer Clouston

Famous quotes with Scimitar

  • The moon, a sweeping scimitar, dipped in the stormy straits, The dawn, a crimson cataract, burst through the eastern gates, The cliffs were robed in scarlet, the sands were cinnabar, Where first two men spread wings for flight and dared the hawk afar.
    Stephen Vincent Benét
  • Defiling their shadows, infidels, accursed of Allah, with fingernails that are foot-long daggers, with mouths agape like cauldrons full of teeth on the boil, with eyes all fire, shaitans possessed of Iblis, clanking into their wars all linked, like slaves, with iron chains. Murad Bey, the huge, the single-blowed ox-beheader, saw without too much surprise mild-looking pale men dressed in blue, holding guns, drawn up in squares six deep as though in some massed dance depictive of orchard walls. At the corners of the squares were heavy giins and gunners. There did not seem to be many horsemen. Murad said a prayer within, raised his scimitar to heaven and yelled a fierce and holy word. The word was taken up, many thousandfold, and in a kind of gloved thunder the Mamelukes threw themselves on to the infidel right and nearly broke it. But the squares healed themselves at once, and the cavalry of the faithful crashed in three avenging prongs along the fire-spitting avenues between the walls. A great gun uttered earthquake language at them from within a square, and, rearing and cursing the curses of the archangels of Islam on to the uncircumcized, they wheeled and swung towards their protective village of Embabeh. There they encountered certain of the blue-clad infidel horde on the flat roofs of the houses, coughing musket-fire at them. But then disaster sang along their lines from the rear as shell after shell crunched and the Mamelukes roared in panic and burden to the screams of their terrified mounts, to whose ears these noises were new. Their rear dissolving, their retreat cut off, most sought the only way, that of the river. They plunged in, horseless, seeking to swim across to join the inactive horde of Ibrahim, waiting for .action that could now never come. Murad Bey, with such of his horsemen as were left, yelped off inland to Gizeh.
    Anthony Burgess

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