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machete in Arabic

مِحَشّ miḥašš

/məˈʃɛ.ti/

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machete in Arabic: مِحَشّ (miḥašš). In English, machete means a sword-like tool used for cutting large plants with a chopping motion, or used as a weapon.

Arabic words for machete

a sword-like tool
مِحَشّ miḥašš

English meaning of machete

  1. noun A sword-like tool used for cutting large plants with a chopping motion, or used as a weapon.
  2. noun A small stringed instrument from Madeira, Portugal, having a double bulged body, traditionally of wood, with a small rib and four metallic strings, sometimes attached by wooden pegs.
  3. verb To cut or chop with a machete.

Full definition of machete

machete in a sentence

  • Near-synonyms: (all sometimes or regionally synonymous) bolo, golok, panga, parang, sundang
  • After some hours of intense work, we had macheted a path through the jungle to the bank of the river.

Synonyms of machete

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Questions about machete in Arabic

What is the meaning of machete in Arabic?
Machete in Arabic is مِحَشّ (miḥašš).
ما معنى كلمة machete؟
Machete: مِحَشّ (miḥašš).
What does machete mean in English?
Machete means a sword-like tool used for cutting large plants with a chopping motion, or used as a weapon.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: machete (page history and authors), its translation table and English meanings. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Arabic words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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