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noun a curved oriental saber; the edge is on the convex side of the blade
originFirst attested in 1548. From Middle French cimeterre (15c.) or directly from Italian scimitarra, possibly from an unknown Ottoman Turkish word, ultimately from Classical Persian شمشیر (šamšēr, “sword”). Doublet of shamshir.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0