katar

plural katars

1. alternativeAlternative form of katara (“type of dagger”).

   We now come to the Katar, or Indian dagger, which affords ample room for the display of the greatest ingenuity and artistic power of the damascener.

   1892, Thomas Holbein Hendley, Damascening on Steel Or Iron, as Practised in India, page 11

1. alternativearchaicrareAlternative form of Qatar.

   Between Katar and the nearest limits of the province of Sharja, namely, the village of Aboo-Debee, the desert comes right down to the sea

   1864, W.G. Palgrave, “Observations in Central, Eastern and Southern Arabia”, in Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London, volume 34, page 145

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   Katar, the pearl-fishery coast east of Hasa. Its inhabitants, said to be 135,000 in number, find an almost exclusive occupation in the pearl trade.

   1875, Day Otis Kellogg, “Arabia”, in Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, volume 2, page 222