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Originally Posted by tom hyle
Yet all those examples you have just given are longswords. I ask again; would the term saif be applied by an Arab to a shorter Arab type, such as the giant jambiyas, or would a Berber so refer to flyssas?
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A modern Arab would probably refer to shorter swords (as long as it is not obviously a dagger) as
sayf. I can't answer as to what they would have said 100 years+ ago. I have a feeling that a non-military person would have still called a sword of any length a
sayf.
