Etymology

bokken

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Today it means: A wooden katana, used as a training sword. Full definition →

Japanese 木剣
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The story

  1. Japanese · borrowed from木剣“wooden sword”
  2. English todaybokken

From Japanese 木剣 (ぼっけん, bokken, “wooden sword”), see below.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.