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Okay , so this is a Choora also; not a Karud as I have assumed ?
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rick has culture shock.
![]() a rose by any other name.... (i'd call yours a karud, but i'm not a pashtun - anyway it (karud) probably means 'bigger knife' ![]() no relation to a karuda bird either. ![]() |
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ooh, dont these threads bring out the pedant in us all?
I always (probobly wrongly) assumed that Kard is the route of Karud which is the T spined, but still straight bladed evolution of the route type, like the one Rick has shown a rather fine example of, while when that blade becomes wider and curved it becomes the Pesh kabz. I always call the 'Karuds' which are the more 'jagged' Afghan type like Warrens 'Choora's'. Hmmm, makes ya think it does.... |
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Okay ..... that's it !
My new list of Afghan choora/pesh/karud terms : Small knife. Medium knife. large knife . ![]() |
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and lest we forget, there is the
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sorry everyone I tried to clear up the confusion but ended up making it worse, however atleast we know that the word is not from a derrogatory word for people from a low caste (which is sad in itself) but means knife in certain languages/dialects
Bally it would be funny if this catches on though, imagine ambiguous auction descriptions "here we have a beautiful big knife, from somewhere not here, size is bigger than usual, hilt wider than normal, and colour strange but not peculiar" |
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