Anyone read Russian/Bulgarian/Romanian? (AK74 magazine art)

[TheWabbit]

I have an Izzy plum AK74 magazine with words (name?) etched in and I'm curious what it says.

 

[Adee]

I can tell you, what you have there is not Romanian. The Romanian alphabet does not have the backwards N.

 

[T.Lex]

Ok, here's what it looks like in Cyrillic alphabet. (I know Kirk reads Russian, too, and a couple others around here, too.)

In the top pic:
МИМ ОБИЧАМ ТЕ
Transliterated (sounded out):
MIM OBICHAM TE

In the bottom one:
МИМА (squiggle) Д ВИЩО
Transliterated (sounded out):
MIMA D VISHTO

Google translate says the top is Bulgarian for "MIM loves you." Google thinks the second one is Bulgarian, too, but can't translate it.

Edit:
Took another look at the second one, and I think it is:
ВИЩОВ
VISHTOV

Which doesn't really help, except that it could be name. There's also a kinda random "D" next to the "V"/"B" at the bottom. No idea what that could mean. Also, a bit of explanation - in the second one, I'm assuming the "g" looking letter is a handwritten "d." At least in Russian, that's how you write a lower case "d." Could be different in Bulgarian.

 

[TheWabbit]

Google translate says the top is Bulgarian for "MIM loves you." Google thinks the second one is Bulgarian, too, but can't translate it.

Thanks. I tried Google but I don't know know the Cyrillic alphabet well enough. Maybe MIMA was the rifleman's gf/wife? That would make sense if the 1 side says, I love MIM (nickname?) and her name on the other side.

UPDATE: I asked Rob Ski from AK Operators Union, Local 47-74 about it and he said it is definitely not Russian, probably Bulgarian or Serbian.

 

[T.Lex]

Yeah, I'm 99% sure it is Bulgarian. I googled MIM, and, unfortunately, it has a bunch of uses in Bulgarian, but none of them seemed very relevant.

One observation - MIM in the top one could be the same MIM in the second one. In Russian (and I suspect Bulgarian), adding an A on the end of something is a way to show it is the "object" of something else (genitive case, for those playing along at home). Plus, the "d" letter can be a preposition (with a bunch of different meanings, depending on context). That's a long way around to say that MIM might be some colloquial term for The Man or Upstairs or Kilroy, so it is used in different ways.

Edit: I edited my first post with a bit more info.

 

[meyer4589]

Any chance the plum was from the recent batch Circle 10 had on Black Friday special? I bought a few and one had some writing in white paint on the baseplate.

 

[TheWabbit]

Any chance the plum was from the recent batch Circle 10 had on Black Friday special? I bought a few and one had some writing in white paint on the baseplate.

Yes. I got the spam can pillow too

 

[Don]

Post it on ar15.com, there will be more then likely someone who speaks the language natively and can translate it for you.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Yes. I got the spam can pillow too

I had to google that. How cool! I bet MillerTyme sleeps on one!

 

[Kirk Freeman]

Think that is Bulgarian. Makes no sense in Russian or White Russian (unless slang I am unfamiliar with).

Trying to think of anagrams in Old Church Slavonic as I know Bulgarian Orthodox uses OCS at services.

Mima means Auntie in Yiddish. So . . . hmmm. We'll crack this code!

 

[walldj45]

I responded on ar15.com, Here is my post:

It's Bulgarian, the horizontal photo says Mime, (Pronounced Mee may) I love you.

Mime is a nickname for a girl named Maria.

I can't make out the letters in the second photo, If you could post another I can help. The beginning says Mima, a different form of the nickname for Maria, If you care I can explain the difference in Mime/Mima.

ETA:I lived in Bulgaria for two years and would LOVE a Bulgarian souvenir. Let me know if you decide to sell it.

 

[TheWabbit]

I put the magazine on the flat bed scanner to get better pictures. Thanks for the translation help. So Mime and Mima are the same girl?

I just got the magazine (and 3 others) as part of the Circle 10 Black Friday sale and the free spam can pillow. I would love to find a magazine with Arabic on it since I was an Arabic Linguist.

 

[walldj45]

Yes, they're the same girl. I responded on AR15.com, I'd paste it here but I'm on my phone.

Mime is the vocative form of the name. Like the form you'd yell with or get someone's attention. Or in this case tell her how much you love her. Mima is just the nickname for Maria. I can ask a Bulgarian to be sure if you'd like. The other word in the second photo is a small town on the Danube river, on the Romanian border. The solider or his girlfriend was probably from there.

Here's the original in Cyrillic and how you'd pronounce it:

Миме! Обичам те! (Mee-may! Oh-beech-um Tay!)

Мима, свищов. (Mee-muh, svee-shtov)

 

[One Shot One Kill]

How romantic!

 

[T.Lex]

Nothing says "true love" better than plum mags, eh?