Navaja

This article is about the Andalusian folding knife; for the bivalve mollusc, see Ensis macha

The navaja is a traditional Spanish folding-blade fighting and utility knife.

One of the oldest folding knife patterns still in production, the first true navajas originated in the Andalusian region of southern Spain. In Spain, the term navaja is often used to generally describe all folding-blade knives.