khanjar
/ˈkand͡ʒə/noun
khanjar is a noun meaning “A kind of dagger used in certain Arabian countries” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled K-H-A-N-J-A-R, and it appears about once in every 69 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of khanjar is khanjars.
What does khanjar mean?
noun
- 1
A kind of dagger used in certain Arabian countries.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce khanjar?
- /ˈkand͡ʒə/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-khanjar.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of khanjar
- khanjars plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is khanjar?
Khanjar appears about once in every 69 million words in written English, the 262,293rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Khanjar in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Arabian dagger:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does khanjar come from?
Borrowed from Arabic خَنْجَر (ḵanjar). Doublet of kindjal.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).