yatagan
French, noun/ja.ta.ɡɑ̃/
yatagan is spelled Y-A-T-A-G-A-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 52 million words in written French, the 229,021st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Yatagan is a French masculine noun meaning “yataghan” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Sabre turc, à lame recourbée et dont le tranchant forme, vers la pointe, une courbe rentrante”.
What does yatagan mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineyataghan
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Sabre turc, à lame recourbée et dont le tranchant forme, vers la pointe, une courbe rentrante.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of yatagan
- yatagans plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce yatagan?
- /ja.ta.ɡɑ̃/
- \ja.ta.ɡɑ̃\
- \ja.ta.gɑ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is yatagan in French?
yatagan appears about once in every 52 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).