khanjar

English

Etymology

From Arabic خَنْجَر (ḵanjar). Doublet of kindjal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkand͡ʒə/

Noun

khanjar (plural khanjars)

1. A kind of dagger used in certain Arabian countries.
   • 2003, Carl S Raswan, Black Tents of Arabia, Xlibris, page 6:

     The small khanjar is a curved dagger, and it was with this very one Nuri had killed in single combat a minor chieftain of the Muntefiq.

Translations

Arabian dagger

• Arabic: خَنْجَر m (ḵanjar)

  Egyptian Arabic: خَنْجَر m (ḵangar)

  Hijazi Arabic: خَنْجَر m (ḵanjar)

• Armenian: խանչալ (hy) (xančʻal)
• Azerbaijani: xəncər (az)
• Belarusian: ханджа́р m (xandžár), кінжа́л m (kinžál)
• Bengali: খঞ্জর (bn) (khôñjôr)
• Bulgarian: ханджа́р m (handžár)
• Crimean Tatar: hancer, qancer
• Czech: chandžar m
• Finnish: khanjar
• French: kandjar (fr) m
• Georgian: ხანჯალი (ka) (xanǯali)
• German: Handschar m
• Hindi: ख़ंजर m (xañjar), खंजर (hi) m (khañjar), कटार (hi) m (kaṭār), पेशकब्ज (hi) m (peśkabj), कटारी (hi) f (kaṭārī)
• Hungarian: handzsár (hu)
• Indonesian: khanjar (id)
• Italian: khanjar m
• Kalmyk: ханҗал (xanjal)
• Kazakh: қанжар (qanjar)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: خەنجەر (xencer)

  Northern Kurdish: xencer (ku)

• Kyrgyz: канжар (ky) (kanjar)
• Lithuanian: chandžaras m
• Macedonian: а́нџар m (ándžar)
• Malay: kanjar, khanjar
• Nepali: खञ्जर् (khañjar)
• Ottoman Turkish: خنجر (hancer)
• Pashto: خنجر (ps) m (xanjar)
• Persian: خنجر (fa) (xanjar)
• Polish: handżar (pl) m
• Portuguese: khanjar m or f, canjar (pt) m or f
• Russian: ханджа́р (ru) m (xandžár), кинжа́л (ru) m (kinžál)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ха̀нџа̄р m, а̀нџа̄р m

  Roman: hàndžār (sh) m, àndžār m

• Slovak: handžár m
• Spanish: janyar m
• Tajik: ханҷар (tg) (xanjar)
• Tatar: хәнҗәр (tt) (xäncär)
• Turkish: hançer (tr)
• Turkmen: hancar
• Ukrainian: ханджа́р m (xandžár), кинджа́л (uk) m (kyndžál)
• Urdu: خَنْجَر m (xanjar)
• Uyghur: خەنجەر (xenjer)
• Uzbek: xanjar (uz)

Indonesian

Etymology

From Arabic خَنْجَر (ḵanjar), from Classical Persian خنجر (xanjar).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈxan.d͡ʒar]
• Hyphenation: khan‧jar

Noun

khanjar (first-person possessive khanjarku, second-person possessive khanjarmu, third-person possessive khanjarnya)

1. khanjar.

   Hyponym: golok

Alternative forms

• kanjar

Further reading

• “khanjar” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Portuguese

Noun

khanjar m or f (plural khanjares)

1. Alternative form of canjar