Dsulfiquar Qatar

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Dsulfiquar Qatar
Dsulfiquar-Qatar.jpg
Drawing based on an original photo at Oriental-Arms.
Information
Weapon type: dagger
Designations: Qatar, Dsulfiquar Qatar
Use: weapon
Region of origin /
author:
India , warrior box in India
Distribution: India
Overall length: about 25 cm
Blade length: about 14 cm
Handle: metal
Particularities: Many versions
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The Dsulfiquar Qatar (also Coutar , Katah , Koutah , Kutah , Kutar or Bundi Dagger ) is a fist dagger from Persia , North India or Malaysia .

description

The Dsulfiquar Qatar has straight double-edged blades . The cutting edges are ground wave-shaped. The blade becomes narrower from the handle to the location and is divided into two blade sections. The local peaks are edged and hardened to serve as armor breakers (English mail piercer). The booklet is designed as usual with the Qatar and provided with two horizontally attached, straight grips. The sword of Mohammed "Dsulfiquar" ( Arabic ذو الفقار, DMG Dhū l-Fiqār or Zulfiqar, Zolfaqar, Dsulfikar, Dsulfakar). There are many versions of Qatar (e.g. Qatar , Hooded Qatar , Scissors Qatar , Three-Blade Qatar ). It is used by warrior caste in India. He is a version of the Qatar.

The specialty of the Dsulfiquar Qatar is the somewhat wavy / slightly serrated blade shape. Below are some similar variants with straight blade shapes for comparison:

See also

literature

  • William Irvine, The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration , Verlag READ BOOKS, 2008, pp. 85, 86, ISBN 978-1-4437-7378-2
  • Lord Egerton of Tatton, Wilbraham Egerton Egerton, Indian and Oriental Armor , Courier Dover Publications, 2002, pp. 102, 109, 116, 164, ISBN 978-0-486-42229-9

Web links

Commons : Qatar  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Commons : Daggers  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Dsulfiquar Qatar ( Memento from April 17, 2019 in the Internet Archive ) at oriental-arms.co.il
  2. ^ George Cameron Stone, Donald J. LaRocca, A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armor: in All Countries and in All Times , Courier Dover Publications, 1999, pp. 344-347, ISBN 978-0-486 -40726-5