shamshir

Then a Yezda was in front of him, shamshir whistling at his head.

One sword stroke sent the other's shamshir flying, a second laid open his arm.

One of the nomads yanked out his curved shamshir, but too late.

However, the Persian shamshir is a relatively recent weapon, and did not exist in antiquity.

He struck one of his own men across the shoulders with the flat of his shamshir.

His hand trembled from his weariness; the shamshir he grasped felt heavy as lead.

Batbaian hesitated, then reached for his shamshir.

His curved shamshir dropped from his hand.

For other uses see Shamshir (disambiguation).

His shamshir came up fast enough to save his head, but Viridovix' stroke smashed it from his fingers.

The curve on the shotel's blade varies from the Persian shamshir, adopting an almost semicircular shape.

The shamshir is a one-handed, curved sword featuring a slim blade that has almost no taper until the very tip.

Viridovix cut another swordsman from the saddle, then found himself facing a Khamorth who carried a light lance in place of shamshir or bow.

The shamshir was similar in design to its contemporaries, the Mughal Talwar and the Saif.

The Kilij and Shamshir.

A deeply curved dao meant for slashing and draw-cutting, it bore a strong resemblance to the shamshir and scimitar.

Perhaps they are corruptions of the Persian shamshir, but the OED finds this explanation "unsatisfactory".

The nomad's shamshir slid from its leather sheath, down which writhed polychrome beasts of prey in the contorted Khamorth style.

Seeing he was about to be ridden down, the Khamorth drew his shamshir and slashed at Abivard's lance in the hope of chopping off its head.

The mace and the sword or shamshir where the main princiary symbols until Alexandru Ioan Cuza.

The İranian shamshir was created during the Turkic Seljuk Empire period of İran.

The word shamshir is Persian and refers to a straight-edged sword as well as to a curved-edged sword, depending on the era of usage.

There was one furrow the years had not put in Godarz's face: the scar that seamed his left cheek came from the shamshir of a Khamorth raider.

The radically curved sword family includes the shamshir, scimitar, Talwar, kilij, Pulwar and the Turko-Mongol saber.

Though strongly influenced by Middle Eastern swords, the typical talwar has a wider blade than the shamshir, and lacks the expanded yelman (false-edge) of the kilij.