Esfâr

Esfâr opens in two directions. In Şemseddin Sami’s dictionary, sefer means a journey, while sifr means a written book or volume — and both take the plural esfâr.

The same written form can therefore gather voyages and books: distances crossed by the body, and distances crossed through text.

Original one-of-a-kind artwork from the Mestûr collection.
Iranian ink on an original 125-year-old Kâmus-ı Türkî page.
Page 109 · Left column.

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