Etymology

yataghan

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Today it means: A type of sword used in Muslim countries from the mid-16th to late 19th centuries. Full definition →

Ottoman Turkish یتاغان
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  1. Ottoman Turkish · borrowed fromیتاغان
  2. English todayyataghan

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

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