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- Japanese · borrowed from長巻
- English todaynagamaki
Borrowed from Japanese 長巻 (nagamaki), itself a compound of 長 (naga, “long”) + 巻 (maki, “winding”), from having a long wrapped handle.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
nagamaki
Today it means: A type of Japanese sword; a single-edged curving blade with a handle comparable in length to that of the blade, whose blade is length is usually comparable to other regular Japanese swords, though other longer ones also were made. Full definition →
Japanese 長巻