assegai

== English == === Alternative forms === assagai, assagaie, assagay, assegaai, assegay, azagaia, hassagay, hassaguay, zagaie, zagaye (obsolete) === Etymology === From French azagaie (now zagaie) or Portuguese azagaia, Spanish azagaya, and later in the forms that have become most common borrowed from Afrikaans assegaai, from colloquial Arabic اَلزَّغَايَة (az-zaḡāya), from Proto-Berber *zaġāya (“spear”). === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /ˈæsəɡaɪ/ === Noun === assegai (plural assegais) A slim hardwood spear or javelin with an iron tip, especially those used by Bantu peoples of Southern Africa. The tree species Curtisia dentata, the wood of which is traditionally used to make assegais. ==== Translations ==== === Verb === assegai (third-person singular simple present assegais, present participle assegaiing, simple past and past participle assegaied) To spear with an assegai. === See also === assegai on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Curtisia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Curtisia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies Category:assegai on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons Category:Curtisia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons