different between odachi vs tulwar

English

Borrowed from Japanese ??? (????, oodachi, ?dachi) (literally, big fat blade).

odachi (plural odachi or odachis)

A long large Japanese sword
A long Japanese sword built like the katana but longer (about 4 to 6 feet long) for combat on horseback.

From Hindi ????? (talv?r)

tulwar (plural tulwars)

A type of curved sword used in India and throughout South Asia.
- 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘At Howli Thana’, Black and White (Folio Society 2005), page 388:
  Therefore, the Havildar, taking his tulwar, smote one of us lightly on the forearm in the fat, and another on the leg, and a third on the back of the hand.

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