Yataghan or Flyssa?

[Ibrahiim al Balooshi]

I would rather know myself where this word came from since it appears on the so called Nimcha of two entirely separate regions.. How did the term pass from one region to another ostensibly from a Persian/Baluchi word up the Mediterranean then down the red sea or vica-versa...? And in discovering that will it throw light on the origin and transfer of species?... Otherwise will we not have gone off half-cock about this weapon?