Khanjar
Traditional combat knife or ceremonial dagger originating from "Greater Persia" / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Khanjar (Arabic: خَنْجَر, Kurdish: xencer, Pashto: خنجر, Bengali: খঞ্জর, romanized: khôñjôr, Dhivehi: ޚަންޖަރު, romanized: khanjaru, Turkish: hançer, Persian: خنجر, Urdu: خنجر, Albanian: hanxhari, Montenegrin: ханџар, romanized: handžar, Bosnian: handžar, Croatian: handžar, Hungarian: handzsár, Kazakh: қанжар, romanized: qanjar) is a traditional dagger originating in "Greater Persia", although it has since spread to the rest of the Middle East (i.e. United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Kurdistan and Turkey), South Asia (i.e. Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Maldives and Pakistan) and the Balkans (i.e. Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Montenegro). Worn by men for ceremonial occasions, it is a short curved blade shaped like the letter "J" and resembles a hook. It can be made from a variety of different materials, depending on the quality of its craftsmanship.