Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Turkish term
iki başlı
Re the sword of the fourth Caliph Ali, it's described here as iki başlı.
http://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zülfikar
It's just that I would have expected iki uçlu rather than iki başlı - but perhaps I have misunderstood.
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Simon
| 5 +3 | bifurcated |
Erkan Dogan
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| 5 +2 | two-pronged |
Fatih Mehmet Şen
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| 5 | two-pointed |
Ali Bayraktar
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| 2 +1 | two pointed |
mustafaer
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Proposed translations
United States
Fail to prepare, prepare to fail...
Native in: Turkish
Works in: English to Turkish, Turkish to English
bifurcated
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Note added at 11 mins (2009-09-26 12:31:26 GMT)
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"two-pronged" and "double-edged" are given as alternatives in the same source.
Türkiye
Language shapes everything!
Native in: Turkish 
Works in: English to Turkish, Russian to Turkish, Kazakh to Turkish, and 1 more.
two-pointed
two pointed
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Note added at 21 mins (2009-09-26 12:41:09 GMT)
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"çatal uçlu" ise "with fishtail bit"
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Cuneyt Arslan
: haklısınız, canlılar için kullanılabilecek biraz daha tıbbi bir terim "bicephalous".
2 mins
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Türkiye
No More Translationese
Native in: Turkish 
, English
Works in: Turkish to English, English to Turkish, German to Turkish, and 1 more.
two-pronged
Written for literary and practical purposes of transmission and preservation, the Khojki manuscripts generally have a simple and basic appearance. Khojki manuscripts very rarely have space between texts and lines. For the most part, folios in the earlier khata type are crowded with text, margins are rare and there are very few illustrations or beautifications. Later pothis increasingly include geometrical or floral designs, characteristic of other Islamic manuscripts, placed between the text. The only significant drawings are talismanic in nature (fal namas), consisting of ta‘wiz (amulets), predictions and drawings, for example, Dhu’lfiqar, the legendary two pronged sword of Imam ‘Ali.
Ayrıca, google images araması bunu kanıtlamaktadır
http://www.madeindesign.co.uk/imgzoom-Two-pronged-fork-Guzzi...
http://i27.tinypic.com/rif5dx.jpg
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