Due to the wide distribution of different types of knives from antiquity to the present day, there is a wide variety of their names in different countries of the world. Most often, the names of knives are determined by the locality of their manufacture or the name of the master who created a particular model.
Knife names in foreign countries
Balisong is a Filipino butterfly knife.
Bowie is an American large combat knife named after the Texas hero Jim Bowie.
Katana is a Japanese long sword.
Machete is a Latin American knife with a long blade. Most often used for harvesting sugar cane and for laying trails in tropical thickets.
Mikov is a Czech knife of the Minov brand - a manufacturer of popular folding and hunting automatic knives with a secure button design.
Navaja is a Spanish large folding knife, one of the first varieties of folding knives in the world.
Nicker - (from German nicker from nicken - to nod) is a German hunting knife designed to finish off a wounded animal with a blow to the neck. Also called Bavarian nicker.
"Rambo Knife" is an American combat knife with a survival kit built into the hollow handle. It was specially designed for the filming of the movie "Rambo".
Solingen straight razors are German popular razors manufactured in the city of Solingen. Also called "singing razors" because of the rustling rustling sound they make when shaving.
Opinel is a French folding knife with a wooden handle, invented by a craftsman named Joseph Opinel at the end of the 19th century.
Puukko (from Finnish puu - wood) is a traditional Finnish non-folding knife.
The Saxon is a short sword, the traditional weapon of the Germanic tribes. From the name of the sword came the name of the ancient Germanic tribe - the Saxons.
Skin-doo (from Gaelic Sgian Dubh - black knife) is a small Scottish knife that is part of the national men's costume. Worn behind a golf garter.
Tanto (from Japanese 短刀 - short sword) is a samurai dagger.
Tsai-dao (from Chinese 菜刀 - "porduct knife") is a common Chinese name for kitchen knives.
The Swiss knife is a folding multi-tool knife. In Switzerland, it is often called an army knife.
Knife names in Russia
"Cherry" is a combat knife, distinguished by its extremely low weight for its category. It is part of the armament of the security forces.
A boot knife is a combat weapon that was customarily worn behind the bootleg. Slavic combat knife. A mention of the boot knife is in the poem "The Word about Igor's Campaign."
Dagger (from Italian cortello - knife) - shaped short-bladed stabbing knife. It is part of the ceremonial ammunition of the command staff of the Russian Navy.
"Scout's Knife" is a statutory combat knife used in the Soviet army from 1940 to 1960. Also called "landing knife".
Samsonov's hunting knives are knives or daggers belonging to Yegor Samsonov's Imperial Hunting Society.
Paren's knife is a knife traditionally made in the village of Paren, Kamchatka region. The blade of the knife is forged by hand from a composite material.
Sideknife - a combat knife, which was usually worn on the side of the belt (under the sideboard). It was distributed in Russia in the 16th century.
Finca is a knife derived from the Finnish puukko knife. It is considered a weapon of criminals. It was widespread in the Russian Empire and in the USSR at the beginning of the 20th century.
The Yakut knife is a knife widely used in Yakutia for hunting, fishing and in everyday life.
