Yataghan inscription translation request

AJ1356 · 27th August 2011, 01:49 PM

The bad thing is that the Turks moved from Arabic alphabet to Latin. And most probably can't read Ottoman texts. That leave reading these specially here to a few Arabs and a Persian speaker (me). And none of us as far as i know speak Turkish. So from what I can make out, First picture right side is the year, It is actually more like 205-210 years old, since those are Lunar years and Lunar years and about 10 days shorter than a Solar year. Next to it is the name of the owner it read Saaheb d d ah Haaj Mohammad Aagha, the D D ah part is uninteligable I can not make anything out of it, Haaj mean someone who had done the Hajj pilgramage, and Mohammad Aagha is the person's name. All the text is missing dots,( چ ح if you can see the dots, the one on the right is the sound of H and with 3 dots it is the sound of CH like China) and without dots it is really hard to make sense of what is written, If i ever make sense of it then I'll let you know. Beautiful peice by the way.

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27th August 2011, 01:49 PM	#4
AJ1356 Member Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Nashville Posts: 317	The bad thing is that the Turks moved from Arabic alphabet to Latin. And most probably can't read Ottoman texts. That leave reading these specially here to a few Arabs and a Persian speaker (me). And none of us as far as i know speak Turkish. So from what I can make out, First picture right side is the year, It is actually more like 205-210 years old, since those are Lunar years and Lunar years and about 10 days shorter than a Solar year. Next to it is the name of the owner it read Saaheb d d ah Haaj Mohammad Aagha, the D D ah part is uninteligable I can not make anything out of it, Haaj mean someone who had done the Hajj pilgramage, and Mohammad Aagha is the person's name. All the text is missing dots,( چ ح if you can see the dots, the one on the right is the sound of H and with 3 dots it is the sound of CH like China) and without dots it is really hard to make sense of what is written, If i ever make sense of it then I'll let you know. Beautiful peice by the way.