This article is about the Andalusian folding knife. For the bivalve mollusc, see Ensis macha.
Not to be confused with Navajo.
A contemporary navaja of traditional design, with a 12-inch (300 mm) blade
The navaja is a traditional Spanish folding-blade fighting and utility knife.[1]
One of the oldest folding knife patterns still in production, the first true navajas originated in the Andalusian region of southern Spain.[1] In Spain, the term navaja is often used to generally describe all folding-blade knives.[2][3]
^ abde Rementeria y Fica, Mariano, Manual of the Baratero (transl. and annot. by James Loriega), Boulder, CO: Paladin Press, ISBN 978-1-58160-471-9 (2005)
^Cuyás, Arturo (ed.), Appletons' New Spanish-English and English-Spanish Dictionary, New York: D. Appleton & Co, (1912), p. 390
^Haraty, Eileen M. (ed.), Merriam-Webster's Spanish-English Dictionary, New York: Merriam-Webster, Inc., ISBN 0-87779-165-1 (1998), pp. 190, 499
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