Language: Arabic
Source: Egerton

Description

Teghá or tēga is a type of Indian sword with a talwar style hilt and a very wide and deeply curved blade.1

"The broad curved sword (teghá) is in use among the Hindu Rángars and Mohamedan Rajputs." 2

-Lord Egerton of Tatton, 1880

 

It is probably derived off the Persian tegha (تيغه), which means "blade of a sword of knife".

 

Tegha

A north Indian teghá, possibly from Lahore.

Notes
1. See Rawson, P.S.; The Indian Sword, Herbert Jenkins, London, 1968. Page 9 and 84.
2. Lord Egerton of Tatton; Indian and Oriental Arms and Armour. Dover Publications; Revised edition, 2002. Page 105.

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