Journal of American Science, 2011;7(6) http://www.americanscience.org http://www.americanscience.org editor@americanscience.org 651 Golden Words in the Veterinary Medicine among Azerbaijani people Jalal Shayegh 1 , Peyman Mikaili 2 *, Aghil Nedaei 1 , Alireza Lotfi 1 1. Department of Veterinary Medicine, Shabestar branch, Islamic Azad University, Shabestar, Iran 2. Department of Pharmacology, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran peyman_mikaili@yahoo.com Abstract: Veterinary holds a great and long experience among the Turkish people like the other nations especially in folkloric literature and the part of literature which has prolonged among the villagers and conserved its own existence but its terms have not registered in their written forms. In a glimpse over the terms like rabies, enterotoxaemia, foot and mouth disease, contagious agalactia and lots of other disease put an apparent persistence on its long experience among native Azerbaijani people (Iran) in its veterinarian aspect. We try our best to have a good clarification over these terms. [Jalal Shayegh, Peyman Mikaili, Aghil Nedaei, Alireza Lotfi. Golden Words in the History of Veterinary Medicine among Azerbaijani people. Journal of American Science 2011;7(6):651-653]. (ISSN: 1545-1003). http://www.americanscience.org . Keywords: Ethnomedicine, veterinary, traditional remedies, ancient terminology, Azerbaijan, Iran 1.Introduction The first signs of the relationship of animals and human beings are found in the rock-carvings in caves (Menges, 1968). The question of "who has trained the animals for the first time?" can not be completely answered. It seems that each tribe of human beings has to make a kind of companionship with the animals in order to draw on animals in support of their needs and life styles. Meanwhile the Turkish people can not be considered as an exception. The close association with animals before settling down and taking up agriculture made them proficient horsemen and warriors (Heyat, 2001). Several Turkish leaders in history provided precious input to veterinary medicine. Tamer lane (13 th century A.D.) who was a Turkish king, was a horse breeder, and at first made his efforts in pathology publishing on necropsies performed at his dead horses (Tadjbakhsh, 1993). The appreciation of animals among these people has had a great impact on Turkish literature, especially on folkloric literature, the literature that deals with the life styles and the traditional behavior of people (Tadjbakhsh, 1993). The availability among the people of traditional terms in a great variety, going beyond the authority in comparison with their scientific equivalents, sounds whimsical. These terms based on clinical signs and pathological lesions are not passed down in written form. This paper tries its best to elucidate some of these valuable terms in use among Azerbaijani people in northwest Iran and still persisting with them. 2. Material and Methods These words are a part of many words collected by the authors and some students of Veterinary Department of their University from different vicinities of Azerbaijani provinces (Ardabil, East and West Azerbaijan) of Iran in four years. For this purpose, we prepared a questionnaire including information about the word or meaning of the word related to veterinary medicine. Then, students were sent to different regions of Azerbaijani provinces. After filling out the questionnaire by student and native vets, they were collected and put into alphabetical orders. In the next stage, the abovementioned collected materials were matched with available related literature for original meanings and spelling, etymological and veterinary meaning analysis. 3. Results and Discussion The authors had the opportunity to bring together over 400 terms that born reference to Azerbaijani native culture and could analyze some of them using available literature. Followings are some examples of these analyzed words. Rabies: Agglutined language is said of a language that forms words by joining together simpler words or word elements, each of which correspondents to a particular element of meaning. If the Sumerian language is not considered as an agglutinate language and its mention of rabies as mad dog or uridim is not considered as a common property of the agglutinates