1.
A sword; because it cuts that upon which it comes: (Msb:) or a
sharp sword; (
S,
K,
TA;) and in the same sense applied to a [knife such as is termed]
مُدْيَة: (TA:) and (so in the S, but in the K “ or ”) the
edge of a sword,
with which one strikes. (
S,
K.)