a sword
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English sword, swerd, from Old English sweord (“sword”), from Proto-Germanic *swerdą (“sword”), from Proto-Indo-European *su̯r̥dhom (“sword”), from Proto-Indo-European *swer- (“to cut, pierce, fester”). Cognate with Scots swerd, sword (“sword”), North Frisian swird (“sword”), West Frisian swurd (“sword”), Dutch zwaard (“sword”), Low German Sweerd, Schwert (“sword”), German Schwert (“sword”), Danish sværd, Swedish svärd (“sword”), Icelandic sverð (“sword”), Old Church Slavonic (svĭrdĭlŭ, “drill”).
Pronunciation
Noun
sword (plural swords)
- (weaponry) A long-bladed weapon having a handle and sometimes a hilt and designed to stab, cut or slash.
- 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part III, Act II, Scene II, line 59.
- Unsheathe your sword and dub him presently.
- 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 49.
- Some swords were also made solely to thrust, and some only to cut; others were equally adapted for both.
- Someone paid to handle a sword.
- (tarot) A suit in the minor arcana in tarot.
- (tarot) A card of this suit.
Derived terms
terms derived from sword (noun)
Coordinate terms
- (weaponry): bayonet, claymore, cutlass, epee, épée, falchion, foil, katana, knife, machete, rapier, sabre, saber, scimitar, vorpal, yataghan, yatagan
Translations
weapon
- Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can
- Afrikaans: swaard (af)
- Albanian: shpatë (sq), pallë (sq) f
- Amharic: ሰይፍ (am) (säyf)
- Arabic: سيف (ar) (saif) m
- Armenian: թուր (hy) (t'ur), սուր (hy) (sur)
- Aromanian: spatã (rup) f, coardã (rup) f, palã (rup) f
- Asturian: espada (ast) f
- Avar: please add this translation if you can
- Azeri: qılınc (az)
- Baluchi: زہم (zahm)
- Bashkir: ҡылыс (qılıs)
- Basque: ezpata (eu)
- Belarusian: шабля (be) (šablja) f
- Bengali: অসি (bn) (asi)
- Breton: kleze (br) m
- Bulgarian: меч (bg) (meč) m
- Burmese: ဓား (my) (da:)
- Burushaski: please add this translation if you can
- Catalan: espasa (ca) f
- Chechen: гӀалакх (ġalaq)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 劍 (cmn), 剑 (cmn) (jiàn), 刀 (cmn) (dāo)
- Cornish: kledha (kw) m
- Czech: meč (cs) m
- Dalmatian: sputa f
- Danish: sværd (da) c
- Dutch: zwaard (nl) n
- Esperanto: spado (eo)
- Estonian: mõõk (et)
- Faroese: svørð (fo) n, (archaic) mæki (fo) m
- Finnish: miekka (fi)
- French: épée (fr) f
- Old French: espee f
- Friulian: spade f
- Gagauz: kılıç
- Galician: espada (gl) f
- Georgian: ხმალი (ka) (xmali), დაშნა (ka) (dashna)
- German: Schwert (de) n
- Gothic: 𐍃𐍀𐌰𐌳𐌰 (spada) f
- Greek: ξίφος (el) (ksífos) n, σπαθί (el) (spathí) n
- Greenlandic: pana (kl)
- Gujarati: તલવાર (gu) (talvār), શમશેર (gu) (śamśer)
- Hebrew: חרב (he) (kherev) m, סיף (he) (sayif) m
- Hindi: तलवार (hi) (talavār), शमशेर (hi) (śamśer)
- Hungarian: kard (hu)
- Icelandic: sverð (is) n
- Ido: armo (io)
- Indonesian: pedang (id)
- Interlingua: spada (ia), gladio (ia)
- Irish: claíomh (ga) m
- Italian: spada (it) f, brando (it) m (poetic)
- Japanese: 刀 (ja) (かたな, katana), 剣 (ja) (つるぎ, tsurugi; けん, ken)
- Kalmyk: селм (selm), үлд (üld)
- Kannada: ಕತ್ತಿ (kn) (katti)
- Karachay-Balkar: къылыч (qılıç)
- Karakalpak: qılısh
- Kazakh: қылыш (kk) (qılış)
- Khakas: хылыс (xılıs)
- Khmer: ដាវ (km) (dao)
- Korean: 검 (ko) (geom) (Hanja: 劍), 칼 (ko) (kal)
- Kumyk: къылыч (qılıç)
- Kurdish:
- Kurmanji: şûr (ku), şimşûr (ku)
- Sorani: شمشێر (ku) (şimşer), شێر (ku) (sher)
- Kyrgyz: кылыч (ky) (qılıç)
- Lao: please add this translation if you can
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- Latin: gladius (la) m, spatha (la) f, ensis (la) m, machaera (la) f, ferrum (la) n
- Latvian: zobens (lv) m
- Lithuanian: kalavijas (lt) m, kardas (lt) m
- Macedonian: меч (mk) (meč) m
- Malay: pedang (ms) m
- Malayalam: വാള് (ml)
- Maltese: sejf (mt) m
- Manx: cliwe (gv) m
- Maori: hoari (mi)
- Mongolian: сэлэм (mn) (selem)
- Navajo: diltłish
- Nogai: кылыш (qılış)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: sverd (no) n
- Nynorsk: sverd (nn) n
- Occitan: espasa (oc) f
- Old Church Slavonic: мєчь (mečĭ) m
- Old East Slavic: мечь m
- Old English: sweord (ang) n, bil (ang) n, mēċe (ang) m, secg (ang) m
- Old Irish: claideb m
- Old Norse: mækir m, sverð n
- Oriya: please add this translation if you can
- Ossetian: please add this translation if you can
- Persian: شمشیر (fa) (šamšir)
- Polish: miecz (pl) m
- Portuguese: espada (pt) f
- Punjabi: ਤਲਵਾਰ (pa) (talvār)
- Romanian: sabie (ro) f, spadă (ro) f
- Romansch: spada (rm) f, speda (rm) f
- Russian: меч (ru) (meč) m, шпага (ru) (špága) f
- Sanskrit: कृपाण (sa) (kṛpāṇa) m
- Sardinian: spada (sc) f, ispada (sc) f
- Scottish Gaelic: claidheamh (gd) m, slòighre (gd) f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: мач (sh) m
- Roman: mač (sh) m
- Shor: қылыш (qılış)
- Sinhalese: please add this translation if you can
- Slovak: meč (sk) m
- Slovene: meč (sl) m, sablja (sl) f
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: mjac m
- Southern Altai: кылыч (qılıç)
- Spanish: espada (es) f
- Swahili: upanga (sw)
- Swedish: svärd (sv) n
- Tajik: шамшер (tg) (šamšer)
- Tamil: வாள் (ta)
- Tatar: qılıç (tt) (qılıç)
- Telugu: కత్తి (te) (katti), కృపాణము (te) (kRpaaNamu)
- Thai: ดาบ (th) (dàap)
- Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
- Tok Pisin: bainat (tpi), bainet (tpi)
- Tongan: heleta (to)
- Turkish: kılıç (tr)
- Turkmen: gylyç (tk)
- Tuvan: хылыш (xılış)
- Ukrainian: меч (uk) (mech) m
- Urdu: تلوار (ur) (talvār), شمشیر (ur) (šamšer)
- Uzbek: qilich (uz)
- Vietnamese: gươm (vi), kiếm (vi)
- Volapük: gläv (vo), flamagläv (vo), komipagläv (vo), reigänagläv (vo), boyadagläv (vo)
- Welsh: cleddyf (cy) m
- West Frisian: swurd (fy) n
- Yakut: кылыс (kılıs)
- Yiddish: שווערד (yi) (shverd, schwerd) f
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