Etymology

shamshir

sham·shir
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Today it means: A Persian curved blade without a pommel. Full definition →

Classical Persian شمشیر
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The story

  1. Classical Persian · borrowed fromشمشیر“sword”
  2. English todayshamshir

Borrowed from Classical Persian شمشیر (šamšēr, “sword”). Doublet of scimitar.

Words from the same roots

Classical Persianشمشیر all →

scimitar

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.