Plural form of assegai; multiple spears or javelins used as weapons, particularly by Zulu and other African warriors.
From assegai (singular), which comes from Portuguese 'azagaia' borrowed from Zulu 'umkhonto', ultimately from Arabic 'az-zagāyah'.
The assegai was so integral to Zulu military culture that Shaka revolutionized warfare by shortening it and training soldiers in close-combat tactics, essentially creating the modern bayonet concept centuries before Europeans.
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