خنجر

From Persian خنجر‎ (xanjar).

• IPA^(key): /xan.d͡ʒar/

خَنْجَر • (ḵanjar) m (plural خَنَاجِر‎ (ḵanājir))

1. dagger

• أَلِف خَنْجَرِيَّة‎ (ʔalif ḵanjariyya, “dagger alif”)

• → Czech: chandžar
• → English: khanjar
• → French: kangiar, cangiar, kandjar
• → Polish: chandżar, handżar
• → Portuguese: alfanje, canjar, khanjar
• → Slovak: handžár
• → Spanish: alfanje, janyar
• → Tigre: ከንጀር (känǧär)
• → Thai: กั้นหยั่น (gân-yàn)

• خنچر‎ (hançer), خنچار‎ (hançar)

From Persian خنجر‎ (xanjar, “dagger”).

خنجر • (hancar, hancer)

1. dagger, a stabbing weapon similar to a short sword

   Synonym: دشنه‎ (deşne)

2. khanjar, a kind of dagger used in Arabic countries

• Turkish: hançer
• → Belarusian: ханджа́р (xandžár)
• → Bulgarian: ханджа́р (handžár)
• → Old Czech: končier
  • Czech: končíř
  • Slovak: končiar, končur
• → Hungarian: handzsár
  • Czech: handžár
• → Italian: canciàro, canciàrro, cangiàro
• → Macedonian: а́нџар (ándžar)
• → Polish: koncerz
• → Romanian: hanger
• → Russian: ханджа́р (xandžár)
• → Serbo-Croatian: hàndžār / ха̀нџа̄р
  • → German: Handschar
• → Sicilian: canciarru
• → Ukrainian: ханджа́р (xandžár)
• → Venetian: ganzar

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “hançer”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1863
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “خنجر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 552
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Pugio”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 1401
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “خنجر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 1950
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “hançer”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “خنجر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 866

• خنچر‎ (xančer)

From Middle Persian [Term?]; compare Manichaean Parthian [Manichaean needed] (xnjyr /xenjer/), [Manichaean needed] (hynjyr /henjer/, “dagger”).

خنجر • (xanjar) (plural خنجرها‎ (xanjar-hâ))

1. dagger, khanjar

• → Arabic: خَنْجَر‎ (ḵanjar)
  • → Czech: chandžar
  • → English: khanjar
  • → French: kangiar, cangiar, kandjar
  • → Polish: chandżar, handżar
  • → Portuguese: alfanje, canjar, khanjar
  • → Slovak: handžár
  • → Spanish: alfanje, janyar
  • → Tigre: ከንጀር (känǧär)
  • → Thai: กั้นหยั่น (gân-yàn)
• → Middle Armenian: խանճալ (xančal), խանճար (xančar), խանչալ (xančʿal), խանչար (xančʿar), խանջալ (xanǰal), խանջար (xanǰar)
  • Armenian: խանչալ (xančʿal)
• → Azerbaijani: xəncər
• → Georgian: ხანჯალი (xanǯali), ხანჯარი (xanǯari)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: ख़ंजर (xañjar)

  Urdu: خنجر‎ (xañjar)

• → Kazakh: қанжар (qanjar)
• → Kumyk: хынжал (xınjal)
• → Kyrgyz: канжар (kanjar)
• → Nepali: खञ्जर् (khañjar)
• → Nogai: кынжал (kınjal)
• → Old East Slavic: кончарь (končarĭ), кончакъ (končakŭ), коньчякъ (konĭčjakŭ), концакъ (koncakŭ), коньцакъ (konĭcakŭ), кончѣръ (končěrŭ), кочань (kočanĭ) (via Turkic)
  • Belarusian: кінжа́л (kinžál)
  • Russian: кинжа́л (kinžál), канжа́р (kanžár), ханжа́р (xanžár), конче́рь (končérʹ)
    • Polish: kindżał
  • Ukrainian: кинджа́л (kyndžál), кінча́к (kinčák)
• → Classical Syriac: ܚܢܓܪܐ‎ (ḥangərā)
• → Crimean Tatar: къанджер, ханджер, гъанджер
• → Tatar: хәнҗәр (xäncär)
• → Ottoman Turkish: خنجر‎ (hancer), خنچر‎ (hançer), خنچار‎ (hançar)
  • Turkish: hançer
  • → Belarusian: ханджа́р (xandžár)
  • → Bulgarian: ханджа́р (handžár)
  • → Old Czech: končier
    • Czech: končíř
    • Slovak: končiar, končur
  • → Hungarian: handzsár
    • Czech: handžár
  • → Italian: canciàro, canciàrro, cangiàro
  • → Macedonian: а́нџар (ándžar)
  • → Polish: koncerz
  • → Romanian: hanger
  • → Russian: ханджа́р (xandžár)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: hàndžār / ха̀нџа̄р
    • → German: Handschar
  • → Sicilian: canciarru
  • → Ukrainian: ханджа́р (xandžár)
  • → Venetian: ganzar
• → Turkmen: hancar

Borrowed from Classical Persian خنجر‎ (xanjar). First attested as Old Hindi خنجر (xanjar).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /xən.d͡ʒəɾ/
• (Deccani) IPA^(key): /xən.d͡ʒəɾ/

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• Rhymes: -əɾ
• Hyphenation: خَن‧جَر

خَنْجَر • (xanjar) m (Hindi spelling ख़ंजर)

1. dagger, khanjar

   Synonyms: چاقُو‎ (cāqū), چُھری‎ (churī)

   • 1983, افتخار عارف – Iftikhar Arif, مہرِ دو نیم – mihr-i do nīm‎, page 60:

     ‏قاتل جِس کی زَد سے خُود محفُوظ رہ سکے ایسا کوئی خنجر نہیں دیکھا بہُت دنوں سے‎

     qātil jis kī zad se xūd maḥfūz̤ rah sake aisā ko'ī xanjar nahīṉ dekhā bahut dinoṉ se

     a dagger which can protect an assassin him from his own blows – I've not seen such [a dagger] in some time now

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• “خنجر”, in اُردُو لُغَت (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “خنجر”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• “خنجر”, in Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English] (in English), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2023.
• S. W. Fallon (1879), “خنجر”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884), “خنجر”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.