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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Type of Persian knife; equivalent in the Persian language for knife}}<br />
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[[File:Kard dagger Ottoman.jpg|thumb|200px|Ottoman kard dagger, 18th to 19th century, stone hilt with gold koftgari inscriptions, metal scabbard with carved decorations set with gems.]]<br />
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A '''kard''' ({{lang-fa|کارد|kārd|knife}}) is the equivalent in the [[Persian language]] for [[knife]].<br />
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In the specialist jargon, Kard is considered a type of knife found in the [[Persianate society|Persianate societies]] like [[Iran|Persia]], Turkey, [[Armenia]] and all the way to India. Mostly used in the 18th century and before, it has a straight single edged blade and is usually no longer than {{convert|41|cm|in}} in length. It has no guard, and usually the handle was bone, ivory, or horn. It was mostly a stabbing weapon, and commonly the point would be reinforced to penetrate [[chain mail]]. A major characteristic of a kard is that the hilt is only partially covered by the sheath.<ref name="Shackleford2010">{{cite book|last=Shackleford|first=Steve|title=Blade's Guide to Knives & Their Values|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E6NZd17WtWoC&pg=PA406|date=5 January 2010|publisher=Krause Publications|location=Iola, Wisconsin|isbn=1-4402-1505-7|page=406}}</ref><br />
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