Definitions for yataghans

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yataghans yat·a·ghan

Spelling: [yat-uh-gan, -guh n; Turkish yah-tah- Yataghans is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 220 anagrams from letters in yataghans (aaaghnsty).

Definitions for yataghans

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 yataghans

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

Examples for yataghans

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A huntsman dismounts and stabs his shoulder with the yataghan.