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Originally Posted by carlos
I just adquire this sword. The pictures are from seller, I hope received soon, I don,t know nothing about origin of the piece.
Could you help me? Age? real or tourist weapon?
Thanks in advance
carlos
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Salaams Carlos, Afghan Pulwar or Pulvar ... This could come out reasonably well as already stated...
I always wondered what the actual relationship was with the Indian Tulvar? Looking at the words in particular Pul meaning flower I also thought what has this sword got to do with flowers?
Pul = Flower.
Recently I am drawn to the fact that the pommel does indeed look like a big metalic floral device, very geometrical but lending itself to that description.
Funnily enough the Hindi word for flower is a bit unpronounceable by Europeans as it starts with a
soft F sound but is pronounced
phol... Pholvar? so it invariably sounds like
Tulvar.... I am not a linguist in Hindi but am surrounded by Hindi, Urdu, and Mulialam speakers as well as Arab speakers... and this conundrum interests me on the linguistics front.
Regards,
Ibrahiim al Balooshi.