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Originally Posted by Jens Nordlunde
So the export was not only blades or ingots - but whole swords as well.
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For some reason, in Hadhramaut and Yemen, the Arabs used to refer to a good sword as muhannad, meaning an Indian Sword.
(R. Elgood "The Arms and Armour of Arabia in the Eighteenth, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries")