different between yatagan vs yataghan

English

Noun

yatagan (plural yatagans)

1. Alternative spelling of yataghan

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Turkish yata?an.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ja.ta.???/

Noun

yatagan m (plural yatagans)

1. yataghan

Further reading

• “yatagan” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Alternative forms

• ataghan
• yatagan
• yatigan

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ??????? (modern Turkish yata?an), related to Old Turkic [script needed] (yat-, “to bend, incline; to lie”), whence also words like yatmak (“to lie”), yatak (“bed”), yatay (“horizontal”), etc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?jæt??æn/

Noun

yataghan (plural yataghans)

1. 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.”

Synonyms

• Turkish sword

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