dagger

Etymology 1
From, , , probably adapted from (1229), related to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, , 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,.

In English attested from the 1380s. The ultimate origin of the word is unclear. Grimm suspects Celtic origin. Others have suggested derivation from an unattested Vulgar Latin "Dacian [knife]", from the Latin adjective. Chastelain (Dictionaire etymologique, 1750) thought that French dague was a derivation from German dagge, dagen, although not attested until a much later date).

The knightly dagger evolves from the 12th century. Guillaume le Breton (died 1226) uses daca in his Philippide. Other Middle Latin forms include daga, dagga, dagha, dagger, daggerius, daggerium, dagarium, dagarius, diga; the forms with -r- are late 14th century adoptions of the English word). OED points out that there is also an English verb from which this could be a derivation, but the verb is attested only from about 1400.

Relation to Old Armenian has also been suggested. Alternatively, a connection from 🇨🇬 and cognate with Ancient Greek.

Noun

 * 1)   A stabbing weapon, similar to a sword but with a short, double-edged blade.
 * 2)   The text character ; the obelus.
 * 3)  A point scored near the end of the game (clutch time) to take or increase the scorer's team lead, so that they are likely to win.
 * 1)  A point scored near the end of the game (clutch time) to take or increase the scorer's team lead, so that they are likely to win.

Synonyms

 * : dirk, knife
 * : obelisk, obelus
 * barb

Translations

 * Adyghe: къамэ
 * Albanian:
 * Amharic: ጩቤ, ሾተል
 * Arabic: خَنْجَر
 * Egyptian Arabic: خَنْجَر
 * Hijazi Arabic: خَنْجَر
 * Armenian: ,
 * Assamese:
 * Avar: ханжар
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Basque: sastagai
 * Belarusian: кінжа́л, ханджа́р
 * Bengali: ,
 * Bulgarian:, , ханджа́р
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chakma:
 * Chechen: шаьлта
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Crimean Tatar: hancer, qancer, qama
 * Czech:
 * Danish: dolk
 * Dhivehi:
 * Dutch:
 * Egyptian:
 * Esperanto: ponardo
 * Estonian: pistoda,, pister
 * Faroese: slíðraknívur, dolkur, daggari
 * Fataluku: pace
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Friulian: pugnâl
 * Georgian:, ,
 * German:
 * Greek:, ,
 * Ancient: ξιφίδιον, ἐγχειρίδιον
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, , , , ख़ंजर, , , , क्षौरी, , , ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Ingush: шалта
 * Iranun:
 * Irish: miodóg
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Javanese:
 * Kabardian:
 * Kalmyk: ханҗал
 * Kannada:
 * Kazakh: қанжар
 * Khmer: កាំបិតស្នៀត,
 * Korean:, 회검(懷劍)
 * Kumyk: хынжал
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: دەبان, خەنجەر
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ມີດຊຸຍ
 * Latgalian: tutyns, mylyns
 * Latin: pūgiō, sīca
 * Latvian: duncis
 * Lithuanian: durklas
 * Macedonian: бо́деж, ка́ма, а́нџар
 * Maguindanao: sundang
 * Malay: belati, khanjar, kanjar, badik, badek,
 * Malayalam:
 * Maori: oka
 * Maranao: gonong, gorok
 * Marathi: चाकू,, खंजीर, कट्यार
 * Minangkabau: gorok
 * Mon:
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Mongolian: ᠴᠢᠨᠵᠠᠯ
 * Nogai: кынжал
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Ossetian: къама, хъама
 * Ottoman Turkish: خنجر, قامه
 * Pali: churikā
 * Pashto:
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Rohingya:
 * Romanian:, , ,
 * Russian:, ,  ,  ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: biodag, cuinnsear
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: бо́деж, ка̏ма, ха̀нџа̄р
 * Roman:, ,
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene: bodež
 * Southern Altai: канјыл
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili: jambia
 * Swedish:
 * Sylheti:
 * Tagalog: punyal, balaraw, patalim,
 * Tajik:, дашна
 * Tatar:
 * Tetum: badi
 * Thai:
 * Tigrinya: ሽነት
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen: hancar, gylyç
 * Ukrainian:, ханджа́р
 * Urdu: خَنْجَر, دَشْنہ
 * Uyghur: خەنجەر
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh: dagr, bidogan
 * Yakut: кынчаал
 * Yiddish: דאַגער
 * Zhuang:


 * Armenian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 劍號
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Italian:, , obelo
 * Macedonian: крст
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: кри̑ж, кр̏ст
 * Roman: ,
 * Spanish: obelus
 * Swedish:
 * Welsh: bidog


 * Interlingua:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:, , ,
 * Lithuanian:
 * Spanish: ,

Verb

 * 1) To pierce with a dagger; to stab.

Etymology 2
Perhaps from.

Noun

 * 1) A timber placed diagonally in a ship's frame.