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cgio 3 hours ago

The Turkish password word may be the same used for signature? I suspect so, because in Greek we have the Greek word for signature but also a Turkish loan word τζίφρα (djifra).

esafak 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

imza is signature while şifre is password. I imagine the conflation occurred because signatures are used like passwords for authentication...

NextHendrix 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Likewise, the monogram of the sitting english monarch (as seen on postboxes and so forth) is the "Royal Cypher".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_cypher

pinkmuffinere 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Hmm i don’t think that one is related in Turkish — i only know of “imza” as signature, but there could also be other variants.