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SCIMITAR

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 405 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SCIMITAR  , the

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term generally used of all
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oriental single-edged curved or
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crescent-shaped swords (see
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SWORD) . The word has appeared in a variety of forms in
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English, due to Fr. cimetare, It. scimitarra or Span. cimitarra; it has even been corrupted into " smyter," as if connected with " smite." Most probably it represents an
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early Western corruption of the
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Persian word for a sabre, shamshir or shimshir, which means literally "
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lion's claw " (slier, lion, in Hindustani "
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tiger," and sham,
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nail, claw) .

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