Help with identification of this sword and translation

ariel · 22nd December 2005, 10:21 PM

The simplest answer: it is an Ottoman Yataghan, likely Eastern/Central Anatolia, based on decorative motives.
It is inscribed in Arabic script, but I think it is an early/primitive Turkish font called Osmanly. Arabic experts will be helpful, and Turkish Forumites may either crack it in 5 seconds flat or get totally stumped, because they all grew in modern Turkey and very few Turks these days can read Arabic.
I know it because I had a yataghan inscribed the same way and it confounded professional linguists and several native Turks.
The handle is a replacement

22nd December 2005, 10:21 PM	#2
ariel Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Ann Arbor, MI Posts: 5,503	The simplest answer: it is an Ottoman Yataghan, likely Eastern/Central Anatolia, based on decorative motives. It is inscribed in Arabic script, but I think it is an early/primitive Turkish font called Osmanly. Arabic experts will be helpful, and Turkish Forumites may either crack it in 5 seconds flat or get totally stumped, because they all grew in modern Turkey and very few Turks these days can read Arabic. I know it because I had a yataghan inscribed the same way and it confounded professional linguists and several native Turks. The handle is a replacement