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Message: <blockquote data-quote="El Mahdi" data-source="post: 5674320" data-attributes="member: 59506">Scimitar is actually an English word (from the 16th century), passed on from either Middle French or Italian. Arabs call it a Saif (which simply means "sword"). Persians call it a Shamshir (same thing: "sword"). (Farsi) Don't know if the Arabic or Persian languages differentiated between the different types by name (one-handers, two-handers, large, great, etc.). In English we call the 2-hander a Great Scimitar. I'm just guessing (but I should be pretty close), but since nouns and adjectives in Arabic have case, gender, and number, and inanimate objects usually recieve the feminine gender - a two-hander or Great Scimitar could be called: Saif-kubra. (Adjectives come after the noun in Arabic - kubra is the feminine singular for great.) In Arabic, a dagger (the curved ones) are known as Jambiya. The wavy long daggers from Indonesia/Malaysia were know as Kris (where Frank Herbert got his name for his Crysknifes from Dune). Kindjal is a Turkish word for dagger, but usually describes a long, double-edged, straight or slightly curved dagger (not the extreme curved Jambiya). <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/glasses.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt="B-)" title="Glasses    B-)" data-shortname="B-)" /></blockquote>