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ataghan

ataghan is the alternative form of yataghan.

Meaning of yataghan

Noun

yataghan (plural yataghans)

  1. A type of sword used in Muslim countries from the mid-16th to late 19th centuries.
    • The angry-faced official communicated the intelligence to a large group of Anadolian, Caramanian, Bosniac, and Roumelian Turks,— sturdy, undersized, broad-shouldered, bare-legged, splay-footed, horny-fisted, dark-browed, honest-looking mountaineers, who were lounging about with long pistols and...1855, Sir Richard Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah, Dover, published 1964, page 22
    Synonyms:
    Turkish sword

Forms of ataghan

pluralataghans

Questions about ataghan

What is ataghan the alternative form of?
Ataghan is the alternative form of yataghan.

Words near ataghan in the dictionary

  1. Ataentsic
  2. Atafu
  3. Atafuan
  4. Atafuans
  5. atagabalin
  6. ataghan
  7. ataghans
  8. Atahensic
  9. atajo
  10. atajos
  11. Atakapa

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