09-04-2024, 08:40 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-04-2024, 08:43 PM by Ahmet Ardıç.)
This plant (root), which the author wrote in the form AFŞAR, is called "AFŞAR OTU" in modern Türkiye Turkish. Here, the word "OTU" means "herb", and in general in Turkish, this word is used to mean plant, herb and/or herbs. In other words, the species name of the plant is actually written only in the form AFŞAR in modern Turkish. In the manuscript, the author wrote the name of this plant in her/his own dialect (about 600 years ago) as OFŞAR. As can be seen, despite the passage of hundreds of years, there is a minor phonetic difference, which can be considered quite insignificant, between the OFŞAR form written by the author and the AFŞAR form in modern Turkish.
AFŞAR herb (asarum europaeum) is a plant species from the puerperal herb family (Aristolochiaceae) and has different varieties. Types of this plant growing in different genera or geographies also have roots with different appearances. Since we are not plant scientists here, we will not comment on which subspecies the plant-root structure drawn on page You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. resembles more. We can get help from plant scientists in this detail. There are also people who call this plant "wild ginger".
This plant is also known as "loğusa otugiller familyasından" in Turkish (& pulperal in English). This shows that the plant may have something to do with women's pregnancy or post-pregnancy medications.
So that;
The word "pulperal" is an adjective, means "during or relating to the period of about six weeks after childbirth during which the mother's reproductive organs return to their original nonpregnant condition." (based on google)
Note: According to practice in some regions, the roots of this plant are placed in the dowry chests of newly married girls to give them a scent.
To see the Turkish and English (/Latin) names of the plant and the accuracy of this information, please see:
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Thus, the number of words matching the drawings became 111. Of course, this figure will continue to increase, just like the number of complete sentences and pages read.