The jambiya is a type of dagger with a short curved blade with a medial ridge that originated in the Hadhramaut region of Yemen. It has spread to other countries in the Middle East and the Arab world and to parts of South Asia and Southeast Asia, and men above the age of fourteen traditionally wear it as an accessory to their clothing. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Weapon Class (category)Sword / Polearm / Bladed 1 Classification
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1. Wikipedia: Jambiya
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a type of dagger
- Weapon class classified from the entity's own sourced description text.
- Weapon class (sword-polearm-blade) is a pre-industrial/melee weapon type by its own nature per the entity's own sourced description text; not carried in current active military service.
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