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Etymology[edit]
From Middle English sword, swerd, from Old English sweord (“sword”), from Proto-Germanic *swerdą (“sword”), from Proto-Indo-European *su̯r̥dhom (“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 Church Slavonic [script?] (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: please add this translation if you can
- Afrikaans: swaard
- Albanian: shpatë f, pallë f
- Amharic: ሰይፍ (säyf)
- 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) (da:)
- 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: please add this translation if you can
- 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)
- 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
- Italian: spada (it) f, brando (it) m (poetic)
- 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 (qılıç)
- Karakalpak: qılısh
- Kazakh: қылыш (qılış)
- Khakas: хылыс (xılıs)
- Khmer: ដាវ (km) (dao)
- Korean: 검 (ko) (geom) (Hanja: 劍), 칼 (ko) (kal)
- Kumyk: къылыч (qılıç)
- Kurdish:
- Kurmanji: şimşûr (ku), şûr (ku)
- Sorani: شمشێر (şimşêr), شێر (şêr)
- Kyrgyz: кылыч (kılıç)
- Lao: please add this translation if you can
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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) (vāḷŭ)
- Maltese: sejf m
- Manx: cliwe m
- Maori: hoari
- Mongolian: сэлэм (mn) (selem)
- Navajo: diltłish
- Nogai: кылыш (qılış)
- 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 Irish: claideb m
- Old Norse: mækir m, sverð n
- Oriya: ଖଡ୍ଗ (khaḍga)
- Ossetian: please add this translation if you can
- 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), шпага (ru) f (špága)
- Sanskrit: कृपाण m (kṛpāṇa)
- Sardinian: spada f, ispada f
- Scottish Gaelic: claidheamh m, slòighre f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: мач m
- Roman: mač m
- Shor: қылыш (qılış)
- Sinhalese: please add this translation if you can
- Slovak: meč m
- Slovene: meč (sl) m, sablja (sl) f
- Somali: please add this translation if you can
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: mjac m
- Southern Altai: кылыч (qılıç)
- 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) (kṛpāṇamu)
- Thai: ดาบ (th) (dàap)
- Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
- Tok Pisin: bainat, bainet
- Tongan: heleta
- Turkish: kılıç (tr)
- Turkmen: gylyç
- Tuvan: хылыш (xılış)
- Ukrainian: меч m (mech)
- Urdu: تلوار f (talvār), شمشیر f (šamšer)
- Uzbek: qilich
- 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, schwerd)
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