Meaning & use
Simitar
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A variant spelling of "scimitar": a sword with a curved, single-edged blade, traditionally associated with the Middle East and South Asia.
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The museum displayed an ornate simitar with a jewel-encrusted hilt.
In the story, the sultan's guards carried curved simitars at their sides.
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"Simitar" is an older or alternate spelling of "scimitar," the more common modern form, both ultimately derived from Persian shamshir.
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