Bichaq but where from...?

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Originally Posted by DaveA

Hi, sorry I missed participating in the hunt!

For future searches, remember there are lots of different ways to spell the name for a knife as well as different names for the same artifact. Search engines are seldom smart enough to look for all the variations.

Here are all the different ways I have seen to spell bichaq:

bıçak, bichaq, bishaq, bichac, pichoq, pichok, pchak, pechak, P’chak

I try to document the ones I find. Here is list on my website with some that might be helpful. Good luck!

https://atkinson-swords.com/nomencla...-equivale.html

Thank you! Subject to the region, even within a certain country, the name used for a knife or dagger can change, leading sometimes to confussion.

Where one names a knife in the former Yugoslavia sometimes cakija, another would call it kama or noz…..

dagger called kama (Bulgaria, Macedonia) or bodez(Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia), bodalo in Slovenia

And biçak is a knife in Turmenian, where it was the name for a dagger in the Ottoman Empire….

It’s all in the eyes of the beholder it seems here as well

As for some more info historically:

http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showpo...2&postcount=24


http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showpo...3&postcount=25


http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showpo...2&postcount=26


And for those interested in literature, please scroll down in this link :

http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...ighlight=Books