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Glaive has been used to describe this fictional type of weapon in films, video games (such as Warframe and Dark Sector), and other fantasy media since. [6] [7]
Depiction of a Hafsid sultan of Tunis holding a nimcha. Blades on Nimcha came in a variety of forms, and were often imported from Europe. Always of a single edge variety the two main forms were either a short generally more deeply curved 'cutlass style', or a longer more slender form that sometimes bore a clipped point.
Two styles of scimitars: an Egyptian shamshir (left) and an Ottoman kilij (right). A scimitar (/ ˈ s ɪ m ɪ t ər / or / ˈ s ɪ m ɪ t ɑːr /) [1] is a single-edged sword with a convex curved blade [2] [3] [4] of about 76.2 to 91.44cm (30 to 36 inches) associated with Middle Eastern, South Asian, or North African cultures.
Pomatorhinus is a genus of scimitar babblers, jungle birds with long downcurved bills. These are birds of tropical Asia , with the greatest number of species occurring in hills of the Himalayas . These are medium-sized, floppy-tailed landbirds with soft plumage.
Homotherium is an extinct genus of scimitar-toothed cat belonging to the extinct subfamily Machairodontinae that inhabited North America, Eurasia, and Africa (as well as possibly South America) during the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs from around 4 million to 12,000 years ago.
Scimitarbills (also spelt scimitar-bills) are three species of African bird belonging to the genus Rhinopomastus.They are often classified in the woodhoopoe family, Phoeniculidae; however, genetic studies show that they diverged from the true woodhoopoes about 10 million years ago and so they are sometimes placed in a family of their own, the Rhinopomastidae.
'Cimeter' is a formerly common variant spelling of 'scimitar', a kind of curved sword. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The spelling 'cimeter' has become standard for the knife. In The Book of Mormon , the term "cimeter" is used often to describe a weapon of war.
The spot-breasted scimitar babbler (Erythrogenys mcclellandi) is a species of bird in the family Timaliidae. It is found in Eastern Himalaya and western Myanmar . Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest .