Sword

Noun

 * 1)  A long-bladed weapon having a handle and sometimes a hilt and designed to stab, cut or slash.
 * 2) Someone paid to handle a sword.
 * 3)  A suit in the minor arcana in tarot.
 * 4)  A card of this suit.

Thesaurus
blade, bravo, brawler, broadsword, bully, bullyboy, claymore, cold steel, combatant, competitor, contender, contestant, cutlass, cutlery, cutter, dagger, disputant, duelist, edge tools, enforcer, epee, falchion, fencer, feuder, fighter, fighting cock, foil, foilsman, gamecock, gladiator, glaive, goon, gorilla, hatchet man, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, jouster, knife, knight, militant, naked steel, pigsticker, plug-ugly, point, puncturer, quarreler, rapier, rioter, rival, rough, rowdy, ruffian, saber, sabreur, scimitar, scrapper, scuffler, sharpener, squabbler, steel, strong arm, strong-arm man, strong-armer, struggler, swashbuckler, swordplayer, swordsman, thug, tilter, toad sticker, tough, trusty sword, tuck, tussler, whittle, wrangler, Excalibur, ax, battler, belligerent, belted knight, bickerer, bilbo,

Etymology
sweord:, from, from (compare Old Church Slavonic svĭrdĭlŭ: 'drill'), from *su̯eros (compare  swero 'body pain', sweren 'to fester',  chwerw 'bitter, sharp', chwarren 'ulcer',  хворый:,  xvara 'wound').

Derived terms

 * bastardsword
 * broadsword
 * double-edged sword
 * fall on one’s sword
 * longsword
 * pork sword
 * samurai sword
 * short sword
 * sword bayonet
 * sword cane
 * sword dance
 * sword fern


 * swordfish
 * sword grass
 * sword knot
 * sword lily
 * sword of Damocles
 * swordbearer, sword-bearer
 * swordbearing, sword-bearing
 * swordplay
 * swordsman
 * swordsmanship
 * swordstick
 * sword-swallower

Coordinate terms

 * bayonet, claymore, cutlass, epee, épée, falchion, foil, katana, knife, machete, rapier, sabre, saber, scimitar, vorpal, yataghan, yatagan

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Amharic: ሰይፍ
 * Anglo-Norman:
 * Arabic: (saif)
 * Armenian: (t'ur), սուր (sur)
 * Azeri: qılınc
 * Bashkir:
 * Basque: ezpata
 * Belarusian:
 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: espasa
 * Chechen:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese:, mæki
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Gagauz:
 * Georgian: ,
 * German:
 * Greek: ξίφος (ksífos), σπαθί (spathí)
 * Greenlandic:
 * Gujarati:
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian: pedang
 * Interlingua: spada, gladio
 * Irish:
 * Italian: spada, brando
 * Japanese: 刀 (かたな, katana), 剣 (劍; つるぎ, tsurugi; けん, ken)
 * Kalmyk: ,
 * Karachay-Balkar:
 * Karakalpak:
 * Kazakh:
 * Khakas:
 * Khmer: (dao)
 * Korean: 검 (geom) (Hanja: 劍), 칼 (kal)
 * Kumyk:
 * Kurdish:
 * Kurmanji: şûr, şimşûr
 * Sorani: شمشێر, شێر
 * Kyrgyz: кылыч
 * Latin:, , ensis, machaera, ferrum
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:, kardas
 * Latin:, , ensis, machaera, ferrum
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:, kardas


 * Macedonian:
 * Malay: pedang
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese:
 * Manx:
 * Maori:
 * Mongolian:
 * Nogai:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk:
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Old East Slavic: мечь
 * Old English:, , ,
 * Old French:
 * Old Irish:
 * Old Norse: ,
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਤਲਵਾਰ
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman: mač
 * Shor:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene: ,
 * Southern Altai:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: шамшир
 * Tamil:
 * Tatar: qılıç
 * Telugu: కత్తి (katti), కృపాణము (kRpaaNamu)
 * Thai: (dàap)
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen:
 * Tuvan:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Volapük:
 * West Frisian: swurd
 * Yakut:
 * Yiddish:
 * Volapük:
 * West Frisian: swurd
 * Yakut:
 * Yiddish:


 * Catalan: espadachí, espadachina,
 * Greek: ξιφοφόρος (ksifofóros), ξιφομάχος (ksifomákhos)
 * Hungarian: kardforgató (lit. sword-swinger)


 * Macedonian:
 * Russian: меченосец


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish:


 * Greek: ,

Anagrams

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