kinjal

A man, for instance, will exclaim to another, "Oh, may your mother die! what a superb horse you have there!" or, "May I eat all your diseases if I didn't pay twenty-five _abaz_ for that _kinjal_ (" dagger ") in Tiflis!"

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. Various

When, as a Caucasian proverb asserts, "It is only a step from the bad word to the kinjal," even an angry man is apt to think twice before he curses once.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. Various