Definitions for yataghan

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yataghan yat·a·ghan

Spelling: [yat-uh-gan, -guh n; Turkish yah-tah- Yataghan is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 105 anagrams from letters in yataghan (aaaghnty).

Definitions for yataghan

noun

1. a Turkish saber having a doubly curved blade, concave toward the hilt, and a hilt with a prominent pommel and no guard.

Origin of yataghan

First recorded in 1810-20, yataghan is from the Turkish word yatağan

Examples for yataghan

Our host cut it up with his yataghan, then proceeded to tear the flesh with his fingers.

The next instant the door opened, and Ali, yataghan in hand, rushed into the room.

The arms of the Bedouins are the curved sword, the yataghan, and the long musket.

A huntsman dismounts and stabs his shoulder with the yataghan.

Has folded up his turban, put away his kaftan, hung up his yataghan, and once more resumed the dress of commonplace Englishman.

The fellow drew his yataghan, and I really thought was going to cut my head off.

A lucky thing to save the head of one of the War Office from a Bedouin's yataghan.

I have a yataghan for you, Colonel, and a khandjar for Auguste.

The blade of his yataghan was inlaid with an elaborate gold device from point to hilt.

The next morning the yataghan of Ali was found beneath the window!