Ethnographic Arms & Armour - View Single Post - Translation please on a Balkan yataghan Sword

kwiatek · 20th October 2019, 03:57 PM

A Turkish couplet:

ey gönül bir can içün her cana minnet eyleme
işret-i dünya içün sultana minnet eyleme

“O heart, for the sake of one (i.e your own) life do not plead with every soul,
For the pleasures of this world do not plead with a sultan.”

20th October 2019, 03:57 PM	#3
kwiatek Member Join Date: May 2019 Posts: 153	Inscription part 2 A Turkish couplet: ey gönül bir can içün her cana minnet eyleme işret-i dünya içün sultana minnet eyleme “O heart, for the sake of one (i.e your own) life do not plead with every soul, For the pleasures of this world do not plead with a sultan.”