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§Alternative forms[edit]
§Etymology[edit]
From Middle English sword, swerd, from Old English sweord (“sword”), from Proto-Germanic *swerdą (“sword”), from Proto-Indo-European *swr̥dʰom (“sword”), from Proto-Indo-European *swer- (“to cut, pierce, fester”). Cognate with Scots swerd, sword (“sword”), North Frisian swird (“sword”), West Frisian swurd (“sword”), Dutch zwaard (“sword”), Low German Sweerd, Schwert (“sword”), German Schwert (“sword”), Danish sværd, Swedish svärd (“sword”), Icelandic sverð (“sword”), Old East Slavic свьрдьлъ (svĭrdĭlŭ, “drill”).
§Pronunciation[edit]
sword (plural swords)
- (weaponry) A long-bladed weapon having a handle and sometimes a hilt and designed to stab, hew, or slice.
- 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part III, Act II, Scene II, line 59.
- Unsheathe your sword and dub him presently.
- 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 49.
- Some swords were also made solely to thrust, and some only to cut; others were equally adapted for both.
- Someone paid to handle a sword.
- (tarot) A suit in the minor arcana in tarot.
- (tarot) A card of this suit.
- (weaving) One of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended.
§Derived terms[edit]
terms derived from sword (noun)
§Coordinate terms[edit]
- (weaponry): bayonet, claymore, cutlass, epee, épée, falchion, foil, katana, knife, machete, rapier, sabre, saber, scimitar, vorpal, yataghan, yatagan
§Translations[edit]
weapon
- Abkhaz: аса (āsā)
- Afrikaans: swaard
- Albanian: shpatë f, pallë f
- Amharic: ሰይፍ (säyəf)
- Arabic: سيف m (saif)
- Armenian: թուր (tʿur), սուր (sur)
- Aromanian: spatã f, coardã f, palã f
- Asturian: espada f
- Avar: please add this translation if you can
- Azeri: qılınc (az)
- Baluchi: زہم (zahm)
- Bashkir: ҡылыс (qïlïs)
- Basque: ezpata (eu)
- Belarusian: шабля f (šablja)
- Bengali: অসি (asi)
- Breton: kleze (br) m
- Bulgarian: меч (bg) m (meč)
- Burmese: ဓား (my) (dha:)
- Burushaski: please add this translation if you can
- Catalan: espasa (ca) f
- Chakma: 𑄙𑄟 (dhāmā)
- Chechen: гӏалакх (ġalaq)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 劍 (zh), 剑 (zh) (jiàn), 刀 (zh) (dāo)
- Cornish: kledha m
- Czech: meč (cs) m
- Dalmatian: sputa f
- Danish: sværd c
- Dhivehi: ކަނދި (kanadi)
- Dutch: zwaard (nl) n
- Esperanto: spado
- Estonian: mõõk (et)
- Faroese: svørð n, (archaic) mæki m
- Finnish: miekka (fi)
- French: épée (fr) f
- Old French: espee f
- Friulian: spade f
- Gagauz: kılıç
- Galician: espada (gl) f
- Georgian: ხმალი (ka) (xmali), დაშნა (dašna), მახვილი (maxvili)
- German: Schwert (de) n
- Gothic: 𐍃𐍀𐌰𐌳𐌰 f (spada)
- Greek: ξίφος (el) n (xífos), σπαθί (el) n (spathí)
- Greenlandic: pana
- Gujarati: તલવાર (gu) (talvār), શમશેર (śamśer)
- Hebrew: חרב (he) m (kherev), סיף m (sayif)
- Hindi: तलवार f (talvār), शमशेर f (śamśer)
- Hungarian: kard (hu)
- Icelandic: sverð (is) n
- Ido: armo (io), espado (io)
- Indonesian: pedang (id)
- Interlingua: spada, gladio
- Irish: claíomh m
- Old Irish: claideb m
- Istriot: spada f
- Italian: spada (it) f, brando (it) m (poetic), stocco (it) m, gladio m
- Japanese: 刀 (ja) (かたな, katana), 剣 (ja) (つるぎ, tsurugi; けん, ken)
- Kalmyk: селм (selm), үлд (üld)
- Kannada: ಕತ್ತಿ (kn) (katti)
- Karachay-Balkar: къылыч
- Karakalpak: qılısh
- Kazakh: қылыш (qılış)
- Khakas: хылыс
- Khmer: ដាវ (km) (dao)
- Korean: 검 (geom), 劍 (geom), 칼 (ko) (kal)
- Kumyk: къылыч
- Kurdish:
- Kurmanji: şimşûr (ku), şûr (ku)
- Sorani: شمشێر (şimşêr), شێر (şêr)
- Kyrgyz: кылыч (kılıç)
- Lao: ດາບ (lo) (dāp)
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- Latin: gladius (la) m, spatha f, ensis m, machaera f, ferrum (la) n
- Latvian: zobens m
- Lithuanian: kalavijas (lt) m, kardas (lt) m
- Macedonian: меч m (meč)
- Malay: pedang m
- Malayalam: വാള് (ml) (vāḷ)
- Maltese: sejf m
- Manx: cliwe m
- Maori: hoari
- Mongolian: сэлэм (mn) (selem)
- Navajo: diltłish
- Ngazidja Comorian: upanga class 11/10
- Nogai: кылыш
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: sverd (no) n
- Nynorsk: sverd n
- Occitan: espasa (oc) f
- Old Church Slavonic: мєчь m (mečĭ)
- Old East Slavic: мечь m (mečĭ)
- Old English: sweord n, bil n, mēċe m, secg m
- Old Norse: mækir m, sverð n
- Oriya: ଖଡ୍ଗ (khaḍga)
- Ossetian: кард (kard)
- Persian: شمشیر (fa) (šamšir)
- Polish: miecz (pl) m
- Portuguese: espada (pt) f
- Punjabi: ਤਲਵਾਰ (talvār)
- Romanian: sabie (ro) f, spadă (ro) f
- Romansch: spada f, speda f
- Russian: меч (ru) m (meč), шпа́га (ru) f (špága)
- Sanskrit: कृपाण (kṛpāṇa)
- Sardinian: spada f, ispada f
- Scottish Gaelic: claidheamh m, slòighre f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: мач m
- Roman: mač (sh) m
- Shor: қылыш
- Sicilian: spata (scn) f
- Sinhalese: කඩුව (kaḍuva)
- Slovak: meč m
- Slovene: meč (sl) m, sablja (sl) f
- Somali: seef f
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: mjac m
- Southern Altai: кылыч
- Spanish: espada (es) f
- Swahili: upanga
- Swedish: svärd (sv) n
- Tajik: шамшер (šamšer)
- Tamil: வாள் (ta) (vāḷ)
- Tatar: qılıç
- Telugu: కత్తి (te) (katti), కృపాణము (te) (kr̥pāṇamu)
- Thai: ดาบ (th) (dàap)
- Tibetan: དཔའ་དམ། (dpa' dam)
- Tok Pisin: bainat, bainet
- Tongan: heleta
- Turkish: kılıç (tr)
- Turkmen: gylyç
- Tuvan: хылыш (xylyš)
- Ukrainian: меч m (meč)
- Urdu: تلوار f (talvār), شمشیر f (šamšer)
- Uzbek: qilich (uz)
- Venetian: spada f
- Veps: mek
- Vietnamese: gươm (vi), kiếm (vi)
- Volapük: gläv (vo), flamagläv, komipagläv, reigänagläv, boyadagläv
- Walloon: spêye (wa) f
- Welsh: cleddyf (cy) m
- West Frisian: swurd n
- Yakut: кылыс (kılıs)
- Yiddish: שווערד f (shverd)
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