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noun a long Turkish knife with a curved blade having a single edge
originBorrowed from Ottoman Turkish یتاغان (modern Turkish yatağan), related to Old Turkic [script needed] (yat-, “to bend, incline; to lie”), whence also words like yatmak (“to lie”), yatak (“bed”), yatay (“horizontal”), etc.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0