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Katana or tachi means sword in Japanese

剣 けん "ken" is also another word for sword and is just as common.

"katana" tends to refer to a single-edged sword, especially a Japanese sword.

"tachi" is a long sword.

"ken" is fairly generic "sword", although it was previously commonly used to refer to a double-edged sword.
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The actual translation of "sword" is 剣 (ken).

I think the original answerer is trying to say zanbattou (斬馬刀), which is a specific type of especially large Japanese sword.

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