Karud: the weapon that did not exist:-)

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Originally Posted by ariel

Personally, I would prefer to call it "straight-bladed Pesh Kabz".

Why should anyone use this term when we already have a perfectly good, accepted and used term...."karud". I have no problem with people pointing out the origins of "Western terms" though.

People from Europe and the US like to categorize weapons and armor by type etc. Having a specific name for this particular dagger type makes sense, lumping it into the category of "pesh-kabz" or "kard" does not help anything as far as I can see.