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canjar

canjar is the obsolete form of khanjar.

Meaning of khanjar

Noun

khanjar (plural khanjars)

  1. A kind of dagger used in certain Arabian countries.
    • The small khanjar is a curved dagger, and it was with this very one Nuri had killed in single combat a minor chieftain of the Muntefiq.2003, Carl S Raswan, Black Tents of Arabia, Xlibris, page 6

Forms of canjar

pluralcanjars

Questions about canjar

What is canjar the obsolete form of?
Canjar is the obsolete form of khanjar.

Words near canjar in the dictionary

  1. canities
  2. canitrail
  3. canivorous
  4. Canizalez
  5. Canizalezes
  6. canjar
  7. canjars
  8. Canjaway
  9. Canjulao
  10. cank
  11. canked

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Adapted from Wiktionary: canjar (page history and authors); khanjar (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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