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motan · 18th September 2016, 03:01 PM

Hi again. I am not 100% sure on the subject, but jambiya (from jambi - at my side) is a term often used for many daggers from the middle east by collectors, but as far as I know, only used by locals in Yemen and perhaps some adjacent areas in the Arabian peninsula like Nejd. Khanjar is a more generic Arabic term for dagger and is used widely-in fact for every dagger except those which have a specific name like kinjal, koummiya or shibriya. Therefore, your dagger is certainly a khanjar and is refered to as such by locals in Syria.

18th September 2016, 03:01 PM	#5
motan Member Join Date: Apr 2016 Location: Jerusalem Posts: 274	Jambiya vs. khanjar Hi again. I am not 100% sure on the subject, but jambiya (from jambi - at my side) is a term often used for many daggers from the middle east by collectors, but as far as I know, only used by locals in Yemen and perhaps some adjacent areas in the Arabian peninsula like Nejd. Khanjar is a more generic Arabic term for dagger and is used widely-in fact for every dagger except those which have a specific name like kinjal, koummiya or shibriya. Therefore, your dagger is certainly a khanjar and is refered to as such by locals in Syria.