What is "other" mean in the bottom bar in yellow

on itunes it says i have 4.85 GB of storaage on my iphone 5s and im wondering what that is ?

"Other" normally consists of the iOS itself, app data, messages, notifications, and email.  Unless you have a massive number of messages, it shouldn't be much more than 1 GB.  Sometimes corruped data gets incuded and can eat up a lot of memory. 
The only way to get rid of it is to restore the iOS using iTunes. Try restoring a backup as well, but it may contain the corrupted data and restoring as a new phone may be the only way.
iTunes: Restoring iOS software

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