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Thursday, January 23rd, 2025
the Second Week after Epiphany
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Scimitar
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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the term generally used of all oriental singleedged curved or crescent-shaped swords (see Sword). The word has appeared in a variety of forms in English, due to Fr. cimetare, It. scimitarra or Span. cimitarra; it has even been corrupted into "smyter," as if connected with "smite." Most probably it represents an early Western corruption of the Persian word for a sabre, shamshir or shimshir, which means literally "lion's claw" (sher, lion, in Hindustani "tiger," and sham, nail, claw).
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Scimitar'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/s/scimitar.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Scimitar'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/s/scimitar.html. 1910.
