assegai
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
assegai /ˈasəgʌɪ/ (also assagai)
▶noun (pl. assegais)
- 1 a slender iron-tipped hardwood spear used chiefly by southern African peoples.
- 2 (also assegai wood) a South African tree of the dogwood family, yielding a hard wood. [Curtisia dentata.]
– origin C17: from obs. Fr. azagaie or Port. azagaia, from Arab. az-zaġāyah, from az, al ‘the’ + Berber zaġāyah ‘spear’.
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