Calgary engineer believes he's cracked the mysterious Voynich Manuscript

[Ahmet Ardıç]

   

In today's Turkey-Turkish dictionaries, we can see 2 different words that are close to this word phonetically, which the author wrote in the form of ÇOLAK / ÇÖLEK, (in terms of their phonetic value). 

The first of these words is the word ÇOLAKA. 
The second of these words is the word ÇÜLEK. 

While one of these words means "early-season vegetable" (turfanda çıkan sebze) , the other word means "mallow" (hibiscus malva / MALVACEAE). 

You can see the meaning of the word ÇOLAKA on the dictionary page here:
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You can check the meaning of the word ÇÜLEK on the dictionary page here:
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In this VM-ninja page, I have been share some comments before about how realistic the drawings made by the author are. So, I will not go into this detail again. Moreover, botanists will explain more clearly what the different leaf shapes of different varieties of this MALVACEAE plant species look like. In any case, when the sentences on the different pages where this word is used will read, it probably be understood more clearly which meaning of them is the word.

You can see some articles about the use of this plant among the people on the internet. Various uses of this plant are mentioned in order to make it difficult or prevent pregnancy.

In rural areas (in Anatolia-Turkey) in the past, fresh hibiscus branches are used as abortifacient. As the recorded info, Pregnancies had been prevented as a result of using this plant of local mechanical effect and/or infection. As far as I understand from the articles I have read, in the past, as a practice, it was believed that a medicine prepared from this plant or its use prevented pregnancy.
(See the page 16 > "Memleketimizin kırsal bölgelerinde, taze ebegümeci dalı çocuk düşürücü olarak kullanılmaktadır. Lokal olarak meydana gelen mekanik etki ve oluşan enfeksiyon sonucu gebelik önlenebilir.")
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Note: In some of the local areas in Anatolia I believe, some type of the MALVA plant is calling as "ısırgan otu" (it is nettle-grass or stinging nettle or dead nettle or stinger in English -?- ) and that same plant varieties are also called as "ebegümeci" (hibiscus) among the people in other area. Since I do not know about plants, I cannot explain the reason for these different names, but it is already known that completely different plants can be named with the same name or the same plant can be named with different names.


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