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, alfange (chiefly Portugal), canjar, khanjar
• → Slovak: handžár
• → Spanish: alfanje
  • → Tagalog: alpanghe
• → Spanish: janyar
• → Tigre: ከንጀር (känǧär)
• → Thai: กั้นหยั่น (gân-yàn)

• خنچار (hançar), خنچر (hançer)

Borrowed from Persian خنجر (xanjar, “dagger”).

خنجر • (hancar or hancer) (definite accusative خنجری (hanceri), plural خنجرلر (hancerler))

1. dagger, poniard, a stabbing weapon, similar to a sword but with a short, double-edged blade

   Synonym: دشنه (deşne)

2. khanjar, a kind of traditional dagger used in Arabic countries whose shape resembles a hook

• 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)
• → Venetan: ganzar

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “خنجر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 713
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “hançer”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1863
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “خنجر”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 212b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “خنجر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), 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^[3], 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^[4], Vienna, column 1950
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “hançer”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “خنجر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 866

• خنچر (xančer)

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

خنجر • (xanjar) (plural خنجرها)

1. dagger, khanjar

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

  Hindi: ख़ंजर (xañjar)

  Urdu: خنجر (xañjar)

• → Bengali: খঞ্জর (khonjor)
• → 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), خنچار (hançar), خنچر (hançer)
  • 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)
  • → Venetan: ganzar
• → Turkmen: hancar

From Arabic خَنْجَر (ḵanjar).

خنجر • (ḵanjar) m (plural خناجر (ḵanājer))

1. dagger

Borrowed from Classical Persian خَنْجَر (xanjar). First attested in c. 1564 as Middle Hindi خنجر (xnjr /⁠xañjar⁠/).^[1]

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

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• Rhymes: -əɾ
• Hyphenation: خَن‧جَر

خَن٘جَر • (xañjar) m (Hindi spelling ख़ंजर)

1. dagger, khanjar

   Synonyms: چاقُو (cāqū), چُھری (churī)

   • 1983, افتخار عارف [Iftikhar Arif], مہرِ دو نیم [mihr-i do nīm]‎^[6], 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

     an assassin who can remain safe from his own blows – I've not seen such a dagger in some time now

2. (Sufism) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

• “خنجر”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “خنجر”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]