The local name of the Afgani short straight or recurved sword T-bladed ( Brits called it “ khyber knife”) is Selavah.
There is a short sword in Dekkan ( straight or recurved, T-bladed) called Sailaba.
Short Kazakh and Kirghiz sword with straight or curved blade : Selebe or Seleve .
Old cossack side weapon with short and heavy blade was called suleba or (diminutive- affectionate form ) selyabka or sulebka.
One can not unreasonably hypothesize that all of these patterns and names stem from the Central-Asian source with Turkic roots and were brought to the Indo-Afghani areal with Babur in the 16th century.
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