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noun a ceremonial four-inch curved dagger that Sikh men and women are obliged to wear at all times
originBorrowed from Punjabi ਕਿਰਪਾਨ (kirpān), from Sanskrit कृपाण (kṛpāṇa, “sword, dagger, sacrificial knife”), from कल्पयति (kalpáyati, “he orders, apportions, cuts, trims”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0