خنجر

Arabic

Etymology

From Persian خنجر (xanjar).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /xan.d͡ʒar/

Noun

خَنْجَر • (ḵanjar) m (plural خَنَاجِر (ḵanājir))

  1. dagger

Declension
Declension of noun خَنْجَر (ḵanjar)
Singular basic singular triptote
Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal خَنْجَر
ḵanjar		 الْخَنْجَر
al-ḵanjar		 خَنْجَر
ḵanjar
Nominative خَنْجَرٌ
ḵanjarun		 الْخَنْجَرُ
al-ḵanjaru		 خَنْجَرُ
ḵanjaru
Accusative خَنْجَرًا
ḵanjaran		 الْخَنْجَرَ
al-ḵanjara		 خَنْجَرَ
ḵanjara
Genitive خَنْجَرٍ
ḵanjarin		 الْخَنْجَرِ
al-ḵanjari		 خَنْجَرِ
ḵanjari
Dual Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal خَنْجَرَيْن
ḵanjarayn		 الْخَنْجَرَيْن
al-ḵanjarayn		 خَنْجَرَيْ
ḵanjaray
Nominative خَنْجَرَانِ
ḵanjarāni		 الْخَنْجَرَانِ
al-ḵanjarāni		 خَنْجَرَا
ḵanjarā
Accusative خَنْجَرَيْنِ
ḵanjarayni		 الْخَنْجَرَيْنِ
al-ḵanjarayni		 خَنْجَرَيْ
ḵanjaray
Genitive خَنْجَرَيْنِ
ḵanjarayni		 الْخَنْجَرَيْنِ
al-ḵanjarayni		 خَنْجَرَيْ
ḵanjaray
Plural basic broken plural diptote
Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal خَنَاجِر
ḵanājir		 الْخَنَاجِر
al-ḵanājir		 خَنَاجِر
ḵanājir
Nominative خَنَاجِرُ
ḵanājiru		 الْخَنَاجِرُ
al-ḵanājiru		 خَنَاجِرُ
ḵanājiru
Accusative خَنَاجِرَ
ḵanājira		 الْخَنَاجِرَ
al-ḵanājira		 خَنَاجِرَ
ḵanājira
Genitive خَنَاجِرَ
ḵanājira		 الْخَنَاجِرِ
al-ḵanājiri		 خَنَاجِرِ
ḵanājiri

Derived terms
  • أَلِف خَنْجَرِيَّة (ʔalif ḵanjariyya, “dagger alif”)

Descendants

Ottoman Turkish
خنجر

Alternative forms
  • خنچر (hançer), خنچار (hançar)

Etymology

From Persian خنجر (xanjar, “dagger”).

Noun

خنجر • (hancar, hancer)

  1. dagger, a stabbing weapon similar to a short sword
    Synonym: دشنه (deşne)
  2. khanjar, a kind of dagger used in Arabic countries

Derived terms
  • خنجر الماس (hancer elmas, “diamond chip or crystal”)
  • خنجر امام (hancer imam, “thorn in the flesh”)
  • خنجری (hancerî, “pertaining to a dagger”)

Descendants
  • Turkish: hançer
  • → Belarusian: ханджа́р (xandžár)
  • → Bulgarian: ханджа́р (handžár)
  • → Old Czech: končier
    • Czech: končíř
    • Slovak: končiar, končur
  • → Hungarian: handzsár
    • Czech: handžár
  • → Italian: canciàro, canciàrro, cangiàro
  • → Macedonian: а́нџар (ándžar)
  • → Polish: koncerz
  • → Romanian: hanger
  • → Russian: ханджа́р (xandžár)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: hàndžār / ха̀нџа̄р
  • → Sicilian: canciarru
  • → Ukrainian: ханджа́р (xandžár)
  • → Venetian: ganzar

Further reading

Persian

Alternative forms
  • خنچر (xančer)

Etymology

From Middle Persian [Term?]; compare Manichaean Parthian [Manichaean needed] (xnjyr /⁠xenjer⁠/), [Manichaean needed] (hynjyr /⁠henjer⁠/, “dagger”).

Pronunciation
 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [xän.d͡ʒǽɾ]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [xän.d͡ʒǽɾ]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [xän.d͡ʒǽɾ]

Readings
Classical reading? xanjar
Dari reading? xanjar
Iranian reading? xanjar
Tajik reading? xanjar

Noun
Dari خنجر
Iranian Persian
Tajik ханҷар

خنجر • (xanjar) (plural خنجرها (xanjar-hâ))

  1. dagger, khanjar

Descendants
  • → Arabic: خَنْجَر (ḵanjar)
  • → Middle Armenian: խանճալ (xančal), խանճար (xančar), խանչալ (xančʻal), խանչար (xančʻar), խանջալ (xanǰal), խանջար (xanǰar)
    • Armenian: խանչալ (xančʻal)
  • → Azerbaijani: xəncər
  • → Georgian: ხანჯალი (xanǯali), ხანჯარი (xanǯari)
  • → Hindustani:
    Hindi: ख़ंजर (xañjar)
    Urdu: خنجر (xañjar)
  • → Kazakh: қанжар (qanjar)
  • → Kumyk: хынжал (xınjal)
  • → Kyrgyz: канжар (kanjar)
  • → Nepali: खञ्जर् (khañjar)
  • → Nogai: кынжал (kınjal)
  • → Old East Slavic: кончарь (končarĭ), кончакъ (končakŭ), коньчякъ (konĭčjakŭ), концакъ (koncakŭ), коньцакъ (konĭcakŭ), кончѣръ (končěrŭ), кочань (kočanĭ) (via Turkic)
  • → Classical Syriac: ܚܢܓܪܐ (ḥangərā)
  • → Crimean Tatar: къанджер, ханджер, гъанджер
  • → Tatar: хәнҗәр (xäncär)
  • → Ottoman Turkish: خنجر (hancer), خنچر (hançer), خنچار (hançar)
    • Turkish: hançer
    • → Belarusian: ханджа́р (xandžár)
    • → Bulgarian: ханджа́р (handžár)
    • → Old Czech: končier
      • Czech: končíř
      • Slovak: končiar, končur
    • → Hungarian: handzsár
      • Czech: handžár
    • → Italian: canciàro, canciàrro, cangiàro
    • → Macedonian: а́нџар (ándžar)
    • → Polish: koncerz
    • → Romanian: hanger
    • → Russian: ханджа́р (xandžár)
    • → Serbo-Croatian: hàndžār / ха̀нџа̄р
    • → Sicilian: canciarru
    • → Ukrainian: ханджа́р (xandžár)
    • → Venetian: ganzar
  • → Turkmen: hancar

South Levantine Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic خَنْجَر (ḵanjar).

Noun

خنجر • (ḵanjar) m (plural خناجر (ḵanājer))

  1. dagger

Urdu
شہنشاہ اورنگزیب کا خنجر

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian خنجر (xanjar). First attested as Old Hindi خنجر (xanjar).

Pronunciation
  • (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /xən.d͡ʒəɾ/
  • Audio (PK)(file)
  • Rhymes: -əɾ
  • Hyphenation: خَن‧جَر

Noun

خَنْجَر • (xanjar) m (Hindi spelling ख़ंजर)

  1. dagger, khanjar
    Synonyms: چاقُو (cāqū), چُھری (churī)
    • 1983, افتخار عارف [Iftikhar Arif], مہرِ دو نیم [mihr-i do nīm]‎, page 60:
      قاتل جِس کی زَد سے خُود محفُوظ رہ سکے ایسا کوئی خنجر نہیں دیکھا بہُت دنوں سے
      qātil jis kī zad se xūd maḥfūz̤ rah sake aisā ko'ī xanjar nahīṉ dekhā bahut dinoṉ se
      an assassin who can remain safe from his own blows – I've not seen such a dagger in some time now
  2. (Sufism) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Declension
Declension of خنجر
singular plural
direct خنجر (xañjar) خنجر (xañjar)
oblique خنجر (xañjar) خنجروں (xañjarō̃)
vocative خنجر (xañjar) خنجرو (xañjarō)

Derived terms
Derived terms
  • خَنجَر دار (xañjar-dār, “dagger-holder”)
  • خَنجَر زَن (xañjar-zan, “dagger-fighter”)
  • خَنجَر زَنِی (xañjar-zanī, “dagger-fighting”)
  • خَنجَرِ آبدار (xañjar-e-ābdār, “sharp dagger”)
  • ناخُن خَنجَر (nāxūn-e-xañjar, “tip of a dagger”)
  • تَہِ خَنْجَرِ عِشْق (tah-e-xañjar-e-'iśq, “enamored”, literally “under the dagger of love”)

Further reading
  • “خنجر”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “خنجر”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • “خنجر”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • S. W. Fallon (1879) “خنجر”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “خنجر”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
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