[QUOTE=Jim McDougall;289727]It is generally held that the 'genoui' is a straight bladed 'koumyya' dagger of Algeria which is a variant if the Arab janbiyya from the Maghreb....which typically has a curved blade.
The apocryphal story for the term has always been that it derives from the influx of edged weapon blades coming from the state of Genoa in Italy,
My apologies.................in response to your question this is all I can add.
We surely did get off topic to what should have been a simple answer.
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