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Old 13th July 2008, 01:57 AM   #1
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I have never needed a translation
Hi David

one day Inch'Allah

your compliments are really appreciated
in a favourable time, I will remember

when peoples request gently a translation,
and then, doesn't acknowledge to have read it
it's a little bite frustrating

it's a life, I know ...

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Old 14th July 2008, 07:16 AM   #2
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Thank you very much, Dom.

Is Madkoor a name? Possibly the owner?
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Old 14th July 2008, 12:22 PM   #3
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Thank you very much, Dom.

Is Madkoor a name? Possibly the owner?
Yes .. Madkoor or Madkour

no firm spelling as far as it's trancripted from an other alphabet
only the sound is important

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Old 14th July 2008, 01:04 PM   #4
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Dom,

May I ask you if you are willing to take a look at the writing on this yataghan blade? Thusfar no one was able to tell what language it is or to translate it.
I'm afraid you're the only one at this moment who might tell me something about the writing. Thanks in advance.
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Old 14th July 2008, 01:58 PM   #5
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Hi Henk
truely, at the first view ... not easy AT ALL
leave some days, but you will've an answer,
what ever it will be ... 'll be

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Old 14th July 2008, 03:20 PM   #6
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hi,

the first script is:

Ya Muhammed kıl şefaat ümmetindendir (O Muhammed! Intercede on the day of Judgement on the behalf of ....... who is one of your Ummah (community of believers) -usually there comes the name of the owner after "ümmetindendir" but in this one we don't have it. Yet we get the name from the second script:

Amel-i Abdullah sahib Hasan Beşe (the title "beşe" donates that he was a janissary)

Our swordmaker, Abdullah, (if he was the one who wrote the inscription) was not much a literate person as it is clear from his spelling of "ummah" so Dom still did a great job
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Old 14th July 2008, 03:28 PM   #7
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Thanks Zifir for your help

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