Khyber Knife or Churra

[estcrh]

Originally Posted by AJ1356

I would call the smaller one a pesh qabz and the larger one Khyber.

Pesh are recurved, karud is the straight version. To me the small one looks like a khyber.

[mahratt]

Originally Posted by estcrh

Pesh are recurved, karud is the straight version. To me the small one looks like a khyber.

Of course you're right. Pesh are recurved, karud is the straight version. Here we see a small Khyber knife.

[ariel]

The answer can be easily found in Stone: khyber knives (Salawar yataghan, churra, churai etc) "... have blades 14-30 in long."
Size doesn't count ( at least here), it is the general outline of the blade.
Mine are 11.5; 15; 17.5; 21; and 22.

And let's not forget the " Karud "-type blade with a peculiar " eared" pommel: afghani (Mahsud) dagger colloquially called Chura, i.e. just "knife"

Same idea, different roles and ethnic variants of pesh Kabz.

[ariel]

This is a good example how the infamous " name game" can be useful: name the object and its entire engineering becomes obvious without additional explanations or images.