List of daggers

The following is a list of notable daggers, either historical or modern. A dagger is a knife with a sharp point designed for fighting.

Ancient daggers

 * Acinaces
 * Bronze Age dagger
 * Parazonium
 * Pugio
 * Sica

European tradition

 * High Middle Ages:
 * Knightly dagger
 * Late Middle Ages:
 * Anelace (14th century long English dagger, worn as an accoutrement)
 * Baselard (14th century long cutting dagger)
 * Bollock dagger, rondel dagger, ear dagger (thrust oriented, by hilt shape)
 * Poignard
 * Renaissance
 * Cinquedea (broad short sword)
 * Misericorde (weapon)
 * Stiletto (16th century but could be around the 14th)
 * Modern
 * Dirk (Scotland)
 * Hunting dagger (18th-century Germany)
 * Parrying dagger (17th- to 18th-century rapier fencing)
 * Sgian-dubh (Scotland)
 * Trench knife (WWI)
 * Fairbairn–Sykes fighting knife (British Armed Forces, WW2)
 * Push dagger

Asian tradition
• Badik

• Balarao

• Balisong (Filipino)

• Bichuwa (Indian)

• Hachiwara

• Haladie (Indian)

• Jambiya (Yemen)

• Kaiken

• Kalis

• Karambit

• Kard (Persian)

• Katar

• Khanjali

• Khanjar (Oman)

• Kila

• Kirpan

• Kris

• Kujang

• Kukri

• Maduvu

• Malappuram Kathi

• Pesh kabz

• Piha kaetta

• Punyal

• Qama

• Sai

• Shuckra

• Tantō

• Yoroi doshi

African tradition

 * Jile
 * Billao (Somali)
 * Seme

American tradition
Military issue or commercial designs, 1918 to present.
 * BC-41 (WWII)
 * Cuchillo De Paracaidista (Argentine Paratroopers)
 * Arkansas toothpick (19th-century US)
 * Facón (Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay)
 * Corvo (19th-century Chile)
 * Gerber Mark II (1967)
 * Push dagger
 * United States Marine Raider stiletto (WWII)
 * V-42 stiletto (WWII)
 * "Yank" Levy fighting knife